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WORLD WAR 



AND 



BIBLE PROPHECY 



BY HARRY F. HOWARD 



GOD HAS TOLD US 

HOW 

THE WAR WILL END 

WHEN 

IT WILL END 

WHERE 

IT WILL END 



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The World War 



and 



Bible Prophecy 



By Harry F* Howard 



God Has Said 



When the war will end 
How the war will end 

and 
Where the war will end 



Copyright, 1918 
By Harry F. Howard 



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This fierce countenance of this awful and 
terrible Kaiser was copied from the front- 
ispiece of "Leslie's Weekly" by permission 
of the Leslie-Judge Co. and illustrates how 
true and perfect current events are fulfill- 
ing prophecy. 



Daniel 8: 23. — "In the latter time when 
the transgressors are come to the full, a 
king of fierce countenance, shall stand up 
and his power shall be mighty and he 
shall destroy wonderfully." 



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RUSSIAN BEAR AND BRITISH LION. 

— The Literary Digest, Netv York City. 

This picture was clipped from "The Literary 
Digest" showing how true and perfect the world 
is keeping in step with prophecy. 

Daiiiel 7: 17, h, 5. — "These great beasts are 
four kings, which shall arise. The first was like 
a lion, the second like a bear." 



BIBLE PROPHECIES. 




THE GERMAN LEOPARD. 

— The Literary Digest, Neio York City. 

This picture was also clipped from "The Lit- 
erary Digest" and shows how true and perfect the 
world is keeping in step with prophecy. 

Daniel 7 : 17, 6. — "These great beasts are four 
kings, which shall arise and lo another, like a 
leopard." 



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- - THE intruders; 

AMBBiOAji Eaoub (to German Peace Doves)-^" Go away.. I'm busy! 

— Punch (London). 



This picture was clipped from "Punch," 
(London) and there is no mistaking it but what 
the world is in tune with God's Holy Word. 

Daniel 7: 17, 7. — "These great beasts are four 
kings, which shall arise, and behold a fourth 
beast strong exceedingly." 

Rev. U- 7. — "And the fourth beast was like a 
flying eagle." 



INTRODUCTION. 



HOW TO READ. 



A young college graduate, who had 
won high honors, said to the writer: 
"I had a good streak come over me 
the other day to read the Bible and 
I bought a large beautiful morocco- 
bound Bible and began to read where 
it says that a lion came up from the 
sea and the lion had eagle's wings 
and the eagle's wings were plucked 
and made stand upon the feet of a 
man {Dan. 7: 4.) 

Then it said another beast, a leo- 
pard, came up from the same sea 
which had four heads and four wings 
of a fowl (Dan. 7:6.) 

I then asked my young college 
friend how he interpreted what he 
had read: "I interpreted it," said 
he, "that whoever wrote such stuff 
was either drunk, crazy or a fool and 
I closed the Bible and bade it good- 
night for all time." 

"But," said I, to my good college 
friend, "before you began to study 
Latin or Greek, you could not read a 
word of it, yet you studied days, 
months and years that you might un- 
derstand. Would you expect to play 
the beautiful and wonderful music of 
Mozart, Wagner or Beethovan simply 
because you had the money to buy 
the music and a piano? In buying 
the Bible you bought one of the most 
prized and worshiped books in all the 
world ; it is one of the most ancient, 
yet more Bibles are being sold every- 
day than of the most modern book 



that any man or woman can write 
today, however wise, learned or tal- 
ented they may be. If you had read 
that 7th chapter of Daniel through, 
you would have read the program 
of this great and terrible world 
war from the time the British Lion 
declared war against the German 
Leopard, till the United States sets 
up a world democracy of all people, 
nations and languages." 

"But," said my college learned 
friend, "the Bible is not true for the 
lion or the leopard are not an am- 
phibious animal, neither does the lion 
grow eagle's wings or the leopard 
grow four heads and four wings as 
a fowl." 

"But, John," said I, "if you had 
read that chapter to the 17th verse 
you would have found the key by 
which it was to be understood for it 
reads that these beasts are kings 
that shall arise and did not your col- 
lege learning of history tell you that 
the British Empire had adopted the 
lion as the symbol of her king and 
government? Did it not tell you 
that United States had adopted the 
flying eagle as the symbol of her gov- 
ernment, the eagle's wings being her 
great source of governing power? 
Did not your history tell you that the 
flying eagle of the United States 
plucked her wings of governing 
power from the British Lion and 
furthermore you know that Germany 
calls herself the Leopard Beast and 
since this war began you have seen 



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the Literary Digest and other publi- 
cations picturing Germany as a leo- 
pard beast in their cartoons and 
didn't your college history tell you 
that the German Empire is a federal 
state composed of four heads, Prus- 
sia, Bavaria, Wurttemburg and Sax- 
ony, and that Germany is the only 
empire on earth with four political 
parties and in Germany they are 
called political wings." 

"But," said John, "Why didn't the 
Bible author write it that way." 
"John," said I, "You ought to know, 
being a college graduate with high 
honors, that when this prophecy was 
written, no printing or printing 
press was in existence, paper had not 
been invented, even our alphabet of 
letters to make a written language 
had not been invented, and picture 
writing was in common use at the 
time many of these prophecies were 
written. Even as late as the days 
of William Penn his treaty with the 
American Indians was made by draw- 
ing a picture of an Indian and a 
white man clasping hands. That was 
as good for them as a long-winded 
legal document and great deal 
clearer." 

"And today this picture writing of 
these ancient prophets of God has 
come down to us in a clearer view 
than they would have been, if writ- 
ten in some for^gn language with 
the figurative language left out." 

Most everyone thinks they know 
how to read, but if the learned author, 
Edward Everett Hale, had thought 
so, he would not have written his val- 
uable work entitled How to Read, in 
which he says: "The first rules are: 
Do not read too much at a time ; stop 
when you are tired ; and, in whatever 



way, make some review of what you 
read, even as you go along." 

Says the noted author Capel Lofft 
in his interesting book Self-Forma- 
tion, "that his wliole life was changed 
and indeed saved, when he learned 
that he must turn back at the end of 
each sentence, ask himself what it 
meant, if he believed it or disbelieved 
it." 

Says our greatest genius on how to 
master personal efficiency, Edward 
Earle Purington: "The way a man 
reads for self advancement is tre- 
mendously important. Aim to get 
the author's real meaning * * * 
Keep your mind absolutely open. If 
you should disagree with any state- 
ment, be sure it is not hasty reading, 
or some preconceived notion or pre- 
judice of yours that causes misun- 
derstanding. The greatest men are 
the most anxious to be taught." 

Ida B. Cole in her essay entitled 
Getting the Best Out of a Book says : 
"I number the points as they are 
given. If there is something that I 
do not believe or understand, I put a 
question mark after it. After fin- 
ishing each chapter I go back over it 
and review the points." 

Bierhower in his essay on Reading 
ivith a Purpose and Mabie, in his Art 
of Reading and Beecher in his Plan 
of Reading, all voice the same warn- 
ing to those who read for wisdom 
and knowledge, to read very slow and 
a little at a time, turn it over and 
over in the mind till one is positively 
satisfied that the author must be 
surely right or wrong in his interpre- 
tation of these Bible prophecies. Hold 
fast to the fact and keep it always 
in mind while reading this book that 
United States will surely win this 



INTRODUCTION. 



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world war and bring about the long 
hoped for World Democracy. It may 
not come as soon as our patience 
would like to have it come, or how and 
where we would like to have it come, 
but that it will come when, how and 
where the Bible prophecies said it 
would, is beyond any question of a 
doubt in the minds of those who thor- 
oughly understand these Bible pro- 



phecies from their many new points 
of view that God has given us. 

Prov.l7: 27.— "He that hath know- 
ledge spareth his words." 

The author will be very brief in his 
interpretations, as one would avoid 
unnecessary steps in a long, hard, up- 
hill journey, when the time is very 
short. 



BIBLE PROPHECIES 



PROPHECY. 



CHAPTER I. 



It is vitally important for everyone 
of us to secure a clear and thorough 
understanding of what prophecy is 
and what prophecy is for before we 
can undertake to interpret any of our 
Bible prophecies at all. 

Prov. 4: 7.— "With all thy getting, 
get understanding." 

How shallow, thin and frail is a 
definition like that of Webster in the 
International Dictionary when he 
says : "Prophecy is a declaration of 
something to come ; especially an in- 
spired foretelling." If that vere all, 
Isaiah's word would be true of us : 
"It is a people of no understanding." 

Compare such an interpretation 
with the Bible view of prophecy, 
given to us almost two thousand 
years ago. 

// Peter 1: 19. — "We have also a 
more sure word of prophecy; where- 
unto ye do well that ye take heed as 
unto a light that shineth in a dark 
place." 

In fact nothing more perfectly 
illustrates the true meaning and 
value of our inspired Bible prophecies 
than does the lighthouse on our coast. 
As it warns our sailors of rocks and 
reefs which mean distress and death 
to any one sailing in their direction, 
so prophecy tells of danger ahead. 

If you were a pilot on one of our 
great ocean liners in the most terrible 



storm you ever encountered and you 
saw straight ahead a light streaming 
before you, would you take it as 
marking the channel to a safe and 
peaceful harbor? No! A thousand 
times, No. The warning would be, 
"Keep away. — Steer clear of this hid 
den reef or shoal which means de- 
struction and death to you." 

"Study your government chart of 
navigation"' it would say. "Read 
how far away to the right hand or the 
left, you must steer your craft." 

In this way prophecy is "A light 
shining in a dark place whereunto ye 
do well that ye take heed," or as the 
Apostle Paul says: / Cor. 12: 7. — 
"The manifestation of the Spirit is 
given to every man to profit withal." 

If, for example, Bible prophecy 
foretells that Germany will win this 
war— Da?2. 7: G. — "And behold an- 
other beast like a leopard and domin- 
ion was given to it," such a foretelling 
is given for the express purpose that 
we take heed and see that no such 
issue is accomplished. 

On the other hand if prophecy says 
that the United States will meet 
downfall; Dan. 7: 7, 11.— "I saw a 
fourth beast * * * and strong ex- 
ceedingly; and * * * I beheld even 
till the beast was slain, and his body 
destroyed and given to the burning 
flame; Rev. A: 7.— "And the fourth 
beast like a flying eagle." — In all this 
the meaning must be, not that the 
United States is inevitably doomed 
but that she will be doomed and meet 



BIBLE PROPHECIES. 



destruction and death, if she does not 
look well at God's navigation chart 
and change her course. 

Bible prophecy tells us just what 
to do and where to steer. It points 
out the straight and narrow channel 
which will save not only the lives of 
our best boys and girls who are now 
in France but also our National life, 
the liberty and freedom for which 
Old Glory stands. 

This is the significance of Matt. 
7: 13, lU- — "Enter ye in at the strait 
gate * * * . Strait is the gate and 
narrow is the way which leadeth unto 
life." The narrow way will be un- 
veiled to you before you finish read- 
ing this book. 

Go back with me for a few mo- 
ments to the begining of history and 
verify with me the fact that prophecy 
is a mental light that shineth in dark- 
ness and that those who took heed 
thereto did well while those who did 
not heed it were punished with sor- 
row, pain or death. 

At the very beginning, God told 
Adam and Eve not to touch the tree 
of good and evil. Did Adam and Eve 
heed the prophecy ? No, they thought 
their own judgment superior to that 
of God and Bible history (Gen., chap. 
3) tells us of the sorrow, pain 
and hardship which this decision cost 
them. 

Then, you remember, there was 
born into Adam's home one of the 
world's great capitalists. He was a 
man of progress and influence even 
to the building of a great city and the 
naming of it after his son {Gen. 
h: 17). 

God loved Cain because God saw 
him advancing civilization. But God 
also saw Cain approaching a hidden 



reef and Cain was warned thereof. 
Did Cain heed the warning? No, and 
Bible history tells us of the sorrow, 
pain and hardship that the rich cap- 
italist suffered because of his neglect. 
Gen. I^: 13. — "And Cain said unto the 
Lord 'My punishment is greater than 
I can bear.' " 

Later in the history, we meet the 
greatest crisis of ancient life in the 
days of Noah when with his family 
he alone escaped. Gen. 6: 5. — "And 
God saw that the wickedness of man 
was great in the earth and that every 
imagination of his heart was evil 
continually." God warned humanity 
of the issue of their wickedness and 
evil ways. Did they heed the pro- 
phecy? Noah did and saved himself 
and his family but the rest paid the 
same old price of sorrow, pain and 
death with destruction. 

Observe the same historic process 
in the story of Sodom and Gomorrah. 
Lot and his family heeded the warn- 
ing and were saved. But multitudes 
from the great cities heeded not the 
prophecy and were destroyed. 

Or witness the record of King 
Pharoah, hard-hearted and most 
wicked as he was. God sent him a 
lighthouse warning in a prophecy 
that there were coming seven years 
of great plenty and seven years of 
famine. He was commanded to save 
enough from the years of plenty to 
bridge over the time of famine. He 
certainly did well in taking heed to 
the prophecy. It was a lighthouse to 
him. 

Passing over a multiutde of other 
prophecies which might be cited, I 
call attention to one beautiful illus- 
tration of the value and infallible use 
of this divine gift to men. You will 



PROPHECY. 



find it in the third chapter of Jonah's 
prophecies. "And the word of the 
Lord came unto Jonah saying 'Arise, 
go unto Ninevah, that great city and 
preach unto it the preaching that I 
bid thee * * * . Let them turn 
everyone from his evil way and from 
the violence that is in their hands * 
* * and God saw their works, that 
they turned from their evil way, and 
God repented of the evil that he said 
that he would do unto them ; and he 
did it not." Even those few citations 
are enough to verify the truth of the 
Bible description of prophecy — that 
it is a sure word, a light shining in 
a dark place, that if ye (as a Nation) 
take heed thereto, ye will do well. 
And the prophecy of the downfall 
and utter destruction of our beautiful 
country will never take place. {Dan. 
7: 7, 11.) P^or as in Ninevah when- 
ever homes, cities and nations, visited 
with sorrow, trouble and violence, 
turn from their ways of greed, wick- 
edness and jealousy into the paths of 
justice, equality and fraternity the 
Divine method will be verified. 

When William H. Taft, that big- 
hearted and far-sighted Ex-President 
of ours declared "that a poor man 
cannot get justice in our courts," he 
pointed to the hidden reef upon which 
proud Babylon fell. 

Isaiah 59: H- — "And judgment is 
turned away backward and justice 
standeth afar off; for truth is fallen 
in the streets and equity cannot 
enter." 

Neither can we ever better our 
labor troubles till there is a growing 
justice and equality in wages. Nor 
can we have a good Republican form 
of government as long as we elect a 
porkbarrel class of men to Congress 



and allow our grafters and govern- 
ment thieves to escape the serving of 
time in our state prisons. Our faith- 
ful, untiring, patient, merciful as well 
as foresighted President said perti- 
nently in his address to Congress, 
May 27, 1918: "The profiteering that 
cannot be got at by the restraints of 
conscience and love of country can be 
got at by taxation." Thanks be to 
Heaven that we have in Wilson as 
President another Washington and 
another Lincoln. 

Let me say right here that I do 
not look for the fulfillment of any 
Bible prophecy pointing to the down- 
fall of our beloved country. I wait 
expectantly for the speedy home- 
coming of our choicest youth — our 
boys and girls from France. I be- 
lieve that we shall enter the harbor 
of peace and safety. My conviction 
is that in that haven we are to wait 
patiently until the second woe and 
the third woe of the great world war 
is over. 

Shortly following this great and 
terrible conflict with Germany will 
come a far more gigantic and fearful 
war for which Japan is now prepar- 
ing in colossal fashion. This will be 
the second woe ; the first woe is nearly 
passed. Rev. 9: 12. — "One woe is 
past and behold there come two woes 
more hereafter." 



APPOINTED TIME. 



CHAPTER IL 



Daniel 12: 1. — "And there shall be 
a time of trouble, such as never was 
since there was a nation to that same 
time." Mark well the fact that our 
Bible prophecies make known in 



BIBLE PROPHECIES. 



many different ways the beginning 
and the ending of this day of trial. 
Daniel 11: ^7.— "The end shall be at 
the time appointed." Daniel 8: 19. — 
"And he said, Behold I will make 
thee know what shall be in the last 
end of the indignation : for at the 
time appointed the end shall be." 

Certain it is also that our Bible 
prophecy did make it known that 
there would be a few wise enough to 
find the appointed time and make it 
known to the world before the be- 
ginning of that great and terrible 
day. 

Da7i. 12: 10. — "But the wise shall 
understand." 

That this prophecy is now ful- 
filled, I \yill proceed to show and I 
will give you the evidence and proof 
positive of the fact. 

The World's Crisis of Nov. 3, 1915, 
(published in Boston, Mass.) says: 
"That this world war is the Daniel 
time of trouble. Let it be remem- 
bered that in our study of this pro- 
phecy we have found the events of 
history following one another in suc- 
cessional order, exactly as laid out in 
prophecy. And then we are duly im- 
pressed with the fact that this un- 
quenchable blaze of war has broken 
out at the well-timed hour scheduled 
in the Bible." 

The World's Crisis of Dec. 15, 1915, 
said: "The great European warwhich 
broke out in August, 1914, came at 
the right time to fulfill the prophetic 
mould." 

This war was prophesied by prom- 
inent Adventists at least two years 
before it came to pass. But you ask 
me how the Adventist finds out the 
appointed moment for the beginning 
of this terrible conflict. Says the 



Boston Sunday American, April 18, 
1915._"The Adventist figures that 
each day means a week of years from 
the creation and in that way they fig- 
ured that 1914 would see the great 
world war." 

The Boston Globe, Dec. 30, 1917, 
says : "Daniel's vision of the Four 
Great Empires happened in the year 
606 B. C. ; the time appointed for the 
fulfillment of the prophecy was 
'Seven Cycles' and as each cycle rep- 
resents 360 years, so seven times 360 
would equal 2,520, As the prophecy 
was delivered in the year 606 B. C, 
as before stated, then by subtracting 
606 from 2,520 we get the number 
1914, the year the present war broke 
out, the greatest war, the world has 
ever seen." 

But not only in the year and month, 
nay but on the very day of Christ's 
appointment, on a day of judgment 
prophesied, did the great war begin. 
Acts 17: 31. — "He hath appointed a 
day in which he will judge theworld." 

Says the Christian Herald of April 
14, 1915: "Truly the time of the Pal- 
estinian Covenant, given in Lev. 26, 
the Gentile supremacy over the land 
has continued exactly the seven times, 
i. e. 2,520 years, and the war began 
on the self-same day, the month of 
Ab, according to the Jewish reckon- 
ing." 

But many will say, "Oh well, now 
that the event has taken place there 
are people cunning enough to conjure 
up something to fit the prophecy." 
But now I am going to show you that 
the coming of this fearful world war 
and the hour of its beginning was dis- 
covered by many Bible students, 
years if not many years in advance of 
the events. 



APPOINTED TIME. 



Prof. A. E. Hatch, A. M., in his 
Handbook of Prophecy, published in 
1912 on pages 102 and 286 says: 
"There is to be a general and uni- 
versal war. God has spoken and his 
word will not fail. There is to be 
universal war and the nations are 
already arming for it. The year 1914 
marks the end, when the times of the 
Gentiles shall be fulfilled." 

In the year 1911 Rev. George 
Shoreij delivered a public address in 
Berwick Maine, in which he said : 
"The prophecies have been carefully 
figured out and 1914 is the year ap- 
pointed for the beginning of the 
great world war and beginning of the 
time of trouble such as the world has 
never seen before." 

Rev. Charles T. Russell published 
in 1891 a work, The Millenial Dawn. 
In Vol. Ill, pages 23 and 59, he says : 
"The time of the end is particularly 
marked in the Scriptures. This time 
of the End or Day of Jehovah's Prepa- 
rations, closing A. D., 1914, is to cul- 
minate in the greatest time of trouble 
the world has ever known." 

William A. Redding published a 
book in 1895, entitled Our Near Fu- 
ture. On page 25 he plainly states 
that the year 1914 marks the doom 
of the present Gentile government 
and the beginning of the great world 
war. 

The Literary Digest of March 6, 
1915, (published in New York City) 
tells us that several years ago there 
was a booklet printed in Chicago that 
foretold that a great and terrible war 
would begin in the year 1914. 

Says the Literay Digest of March 
6, 1915 : "There has been discovered 
in an old family Bible in the Father- 



land (Germany) a prophecy which 
foretold a world war in 1914. 

In closing this chapter I want 
frankly to say that I have only intro- 
duced a very small part of the proof 
that can be given that this vast and 
terrible war drama began and was 
destined to begin on the identical day, 
month and year foretold in Bible pro- 
phecy. And I mean to tell you in my 
book the appointed time when the 
world war-drama will end. 



BEGINNING OF SORROW. 



CHAPTER III. 



A few years ago, I climbed to the 
top of the Washington Monument at 
our Nation's Capital and while com- 
ing down, I met several people who 
had made an ascent of perhaps 150 
of the 550 feet to the summit. "For 
Heavens sake," said one of them to 
me, "How much further is it to the 
top? If it is much farther, we shall 
have to give it up." In this same 
way, many are saying now: "We 
don't see how we are going to stand 
it, if this terrible war lasts much 
longer." 

If you examine the prophecies care- 
fully, you can only reach the con- 
clusion that the world war has just 
begun. Consider carefully and read 
slowly the prophecies from the fol- 
lowing three great prophets. 

KEY. 

Exodus 15: 5.— "The Lord is a 
man of war: the Lord is his name." 
ISAIAH'S PROPHECY. 

Isaiah 2U: 1, 3, 6.— "Behold the 
Lord maketh the earth empty; and 
turneth it upside down, and scatter- 
eth abroad the inhabitants thereof. 



BIBLE PROPHECIES. 



The land shall be utterly emptied, 
and utterly spoiled. Therefore hath 
the curse devoured the earth, and 
they that dwell therein are burned, 
and few men are left." 

DANIEL'S PROPHECY. 

Daniel 12: 1. — "And at that time, 
there shall be a time of trouble, such 
as never was since there was a nation 
even to that time." 

CHRIST'S PROPHECY. 

St. Matt., chap. 2^.— "Tell us, when 
shall these things be and what shall 
be the sign of the end * * * . Jesus 
answered and said * * * Nation 
shall rise against nation and kingdom 
against kingdom : and there shall be 
famines and pestilences in divers 
places * * * . Ye shall see the 
abomination of desolation spoken of 
by Daniel the prophet * * * there 
shall be great tribulation, such as was 
not since the beginning of the world 
to this time, no, nor ever shall be. 
And except those days should be 
shortened, there should no flesh be 
saved." 

Christ made it perfectly clear and 
used great plainness of speech for he 
said: "When ye see nation rising 
against nation and kingdom against 
kingdom and famines and pestilences, 
these are just the beginning of sor- 
rows (Matt. 2Jt: 8). 

Some of our papers would seem to 
imply that this world war is at its 
height, nearly over and not to last 
much longer. 

Says the Safeguard and Armory of 
October, 1915, page 12: "Nothing in 
all history of Oriental civilization can 
compare with the enormity of this 
holocaust of blood in Europe. The 
story of it is one for which the white 
race must blush with ignominy and 



shame forever. For destruction of 
invaluable and irreparable treasure, 
for the waste of vast sums gathered 
from the requited toil of millions; 
for the unlosing of the fiercest pas- 
sions and the gratification of greed 
and lust; for the sowing of inhuman 
enmities never to be forgotten — this 
European Horror has no precedent in 
all the savagery of the past.".^ ,. 

Said President Emeritus Charles 
W. Eliot of Harvard College, Feb. 7, 
1915 : "More than 300,000,000 of peo- 
ple are involved in the most cruel and 
savage war that has ever been waged 
— a war in which the recently won 
powers of man over nature are all 
turned with an administrative effi- 
ciency greater than the world ha^ 
ever before seen to the most active 
and persistent destruction of life and 
property, and now, within the last 
five months, the worst, because of its 
wide extent, the fury with which it is 
prosecuted and the destructive power 
of its new implements — brings un- 
heard-of-misery upon the human 
race; and the Christian churches are 
helpless to prevent it." 

Said the Boston Herald of Jan. 3, 
1915: "The world war — there has 
never been a war like it. It is the 
greatest war in all history. Never 
since war began has such a gigantic 
combat been known. After five 
months of it we may confidently say 
that it is not only the most fiercely 
contested but the most deadly of any 
war in memory." 

Says the Boston American, Nov. 
19, 1915: "The human mind never 
before conceived such a horror as 
this war has become. It surpasses 
the insane imagination of the bitter 
soul of Swift, the frightful visions 



BEGINNING OF SORROW. 



that haunted the gloomy soul of 
Dante." 

The World's Crisis, Nov. 3, 1915, 
has truly said: "We may conclude 
that we are now in the time of 
trouble here foretold {Dan. 12: 1 and 
Matt. 2h: 21.) In momentum and 
sweep the present European war is 
without a parallel. It is easily the 
most gigantic of wars. It may be re- 
garded as the worst and last v/ar of 
the nations." 

"Any war is horrible. This war 
is the most horrible of all wars in its 
extent and in the severe and wide- 
spread suffering it has caused." — 
New York Wccklij Witriess, July 11, 
1017. 

It is perfectly clear that we are 
only at the beginning of this great 
world war. The Bible prophecy makes 
it known to us that this conflict will 
bring the time of the greatest abomi- 
nation of desolation and tribulation 
and death since the beginning of the 
world, the disaster and loss of life 
being even greater than at the time 
of Noah and the Flood. 

It is true that the war has de- 
stroyed several millions of people but 
when you compare this loss wiih the 
population of the earth which may be 
estimated as one billion two hundred 
million and when you remember that 
as many have been born as have 
fallen in battle, you cannot fail to see 
the fulfillment of prophecy is as yet 
but a drop in the bucket of what is 
to come. It is true also that France 
and Belgium have seen a few hundred 
miles of their possessions laid waste 
but compare this with the desolation 
prophesied by the Bible and we see 
how much is yet to come before all is 
fulfilled. 



If you compare this war so far 
with what Isaiah foretold and Christ 
declared you will see at a glance that 
we are now only at the beginning of 
sorrow, tribulation and desolation 
that will shortly come to pa<ss in 
every little detail. The Bible, as you 
will see, foretells it and God's word 
has never failed. Matt. 5: 18. — "For 
verily I say unto you, one jot or one 
tittle shall in no wise pass from the 
law, till all be fulfilled." 



WAR LORD. 



CHAPTER IV. 



The reader of the Holy Bible from 
Genesis to Revelation can not fail to 
notice the constant recurrence of the 
mention made of The Coming of the 
Lord and of the many terrible things 
He would do. And as I see it, no one 
of the prophets omits to mention this 
German War-Lord, the Kaiser. 

Does the Bible give us the key to 
this word Lord? I believe such a 
key is found in Exodus 15: 3. — "The 
Lord is a man of war : the Lord is his 
name." 

Did the Bible prophecies say that 
God would send messengers to warn 
the world of this coming War-Lord? 

Mark well the perfectness of the 
prophecy. Luke 12: 5. — "I will fore- 
warn you whom ye shall fear." 

Did not Joseph Wolf commence 
preaching in Asia as early as 1820 
that the coming of the Lord was an 
event near at hand? Did not Edward 
Irving, that noted English orator, in 
1823, begin to proclaim the same 
message in Europe? John Wesley 
also took his part in proclaiming the 
near coming of the Lord and he even 



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figured out the prophetic periods of 
Revelation. Did not hundreds and 
thousands of the people receive the 
preaching of Wolf, Irving and Wes- 
ley, as glad tidings of joy? 

Did not William Miller in 1843 and 
later did not Moody, the famous evan- 
gelist, bring the same message vv^hich 
was heralded with joy by multitudes? 
Was not the creed of Second Advent- 
ism declared in 1849? And did not 
thousands accept it and go forth to 
all corners of the earth declaring that 
the Coming of the Lord was right 
at hand? They indeed spoke the 
truth. 

Amos 5: 18, 20. — "Woe unto you 
that desire the day of the Lord! To 
what end is for you ? The day of the 
Lord is darkness and not light * * * 
even very dark and no brightness in 
it." 

When I was a boy on the farm and 
used to go to the church on the hill, 
I heard the minister very often tell 
his church members that the Lord 
was soon coming and the church 
would echo with voices crying, 
"Amen, Amen, Hallelujah, Praise the 
liord !" I have plenty of evidence 
and proof that in the world of today 
the Lord has arrived and begun his 
work of desolation and tribulation in 
the war whose horror is almost be- 
yond belief. 

Said the New York Weekly Wit- 
ness, Oct. 10, 1917.— "The War Lord 
of Germany and his counsellors and 
agents, have sent fire and blood 
throughout the whole world." 

Said the Boston Post, Dec. 10, 
1914. — "There is no longer any at- 
tempt to conceal the seriousness of 
the Kaiser's illness, and reports to 
night indicate that all Germany is 



worried over the prostration of their 
War-Lord." 

Said the Boston American, Dec. 26, 
1917. — "The Kaiser's greeting to the 
army is full of iron fist. A despatch 
from Berlin today quoted the War- 
Lord as saying: 'We must bring 
peace by our sharp-edged sword.' " 

Is not the Bible accurate in its pro- 
phecy that it would be growing dark 
when this Lord of Germany should 
begin his deadly blows of destruction. 

I want now to call attention — to 
take up a few of the many prophecies 
which so accurately describe this 
Kaiser that his identity cannot be 
questioned. He arrived as I have 
shown on the very day, month and 
year when the Bible indicates. W^hat 
kind of a lookin'g man should we ex- 
pect from the prophetic description. 
Dan. 8: 23, 2U. — "A king of fierce 
countenance shall stand up and his 
power shall be mighty * * and he 
shall destroy wonderfully." 

No one can look upon the picture 
of the Kaiser as given in our illus- 
trated journals without confirming 
the prediction and how his power has 
astonished the world and especially 
when one remembers that his little 
Empire of Germany in extent only 
equals four-fifths of the land of 
Texas. 

"And he shall destroy wonder- 
fully." Other wars of history have 
figured their expense by millions but 
since this War-Lord came we must 
reckon by billions. 

But Daniel identifies the Kaiser 
still more closely. Dan. 8: 22. — "Four 
kingdoms shall stand up out of the 
nation but not in his power." "The 
German Em.pire," says Woodrovj 
Wilson, Ph.D., LLD., now President 



WAR LORD. 



of the United States, in his book en- 
titled, The State," page 252, "is a 
federal state composed of four king- 
doms, Prussia, Bavaria, Wurttemberg 
and Saxony." The prophecy is 
shown to be accurate by the fact the 
influential and powerful little Empire 
was not born of the Kaiser's genius 
but of Prince Bismark's creative 
spirit. 

I want to take up one more pro- 
phecy as to the personal appearance 
of this German War-Lord and ask 
you to note its accuracy. Zech. 11: 17. 
— "Woe to the idol shepherd that 
leavcth the flock! The sword shall 
be upon his arm, and upon his right 
eye: his arm shall be clean dried up, 
and his right eye shall be utterly 
darkened." 

The interpretation: 

No ruler has ever been more be- 
loved and idolized by his people than 
has this Kaiser of Germany. This is 
where he found His tremendous and 
almost miraculous power. This Em- 
peror and his people were united with 
an iron band of love, and confidence in 
each other's faith and fidelity. But 
the prophecy reads "That he leaveth 
the Flock." Is not this Kaiser sac- 
rificing today the confidence and 
fidelity of his people upon the saddest, 
most ghastly and most beastly altar 
of the most cruel war of all history 
and that just to satisfy a personal 
ambition to be ruler over all the 
earth? 

Then the prophecy reads: "That 
the sword shall be upon his arm and 
his arm shall be clean dried up." 
Most people think that the Emperor 
was born with the withered arm he 
carries. But the fact is that while 



he was a young man he fought a 
duel with the sword, he was wounded 
in the arm and the withered arm he 
bears was the result. 

The prophecy further reads that 
the sword shall be upon his right eye 
and that his right eye shall be utterly 
darkened. This prediction is yet to 
be fulfilled before this fearful world 
war comes to its end. 

Other prophecies declare that the 
Kaiser will be wounded almost unto 
death so that it will not seem possible 
for him to live. But live he will and 
by him one of the leading parts will 
be taken in the second act or woe 
{Rev. 9: 12) of this great war drama. 

Daniel 8: 19. — "Behold, I will make 
thee know what shall be in the last 
end of the indignation : for at the time 
appointed the end shall be." 

Isaiah 10: 5. — "0 Assyrian, the rod 
of mine anger, and the staff in their 
hand is mine indignation." 

The interpretation: 

The prophecy shows that when the 
great world war should begin in 1914 
at the appointed time called often in 
the prophetic books "God's Anger 
and Indignation," then an Assyrian 
would lead, not his own nation, but 
from another nation his (staff) 
strength would be given him. For 
strange as it may seem the Kaiser is 
not a German but an Assyrian. When 
this Potentate visited Queen Victoria, 
a short time before she died, the 
Queen said to the Kaiser, "William, 
you are an Assyrian from your 
father's side of the house." True it 
is that on the mother's side the Ger- 
man despot is of English blood, but 
among the ancients the nationality of 
the son was called from the father's 
side so that the Kaiser is the Assyrian 



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who is sacrificing the German nation 
to satisfy his personal ambition. 

I could go on with repeated pro- 
phecies which plainly identify the 
Kaiser in more than a hundred ways. 
He is the prophesied War-Lord, "the 
Man of Sin," "The Assyrian and 
Beast" who has brought upon us this 
terrible war and there is no mistaking 
of it. 



THE FOUR GREAT BEASTS. 



CHAPTER V. 



In the seventh chapter of Daniel is 
a complete program of this great and 
terrible world war and when that 
mighty prophet gave to the world this 
most wonderful Temple of Prophecy 
he left the master key in the very 
front door. 

THE MASTER KEY. 

Daniel 7: 17. — "These great beasts 
which are four, are four kings which 
shall arise out of the earth." 

Notice how clearly and unmistak- 
ably our Infinite God of Justice places 
the blame for this great and terrible 
conflict just where it belongs. The 
blame is placed upon the Kings. You 
readers well know that if the Kings 
of Germany, England and Russia, 
(who are cousins), had died a year 
before this world war opened, it 
would never have taken place. It is 
a Royal Family Row and we all know 
the fact. 

The first beast or empire to arise 
is unmistakable. Daniel 7: 4. — "The 
first beast was like a lion." England 
is known and called, the world over, 
"The British Lion." She can right- 
fully be so termed for the lion is her 



chosen symbol on her ensign floating 
before the eyes of all other nations. 

Daniel 7: 4. — "The first was like a 
lion, and had eagle's wings: I beheld 
till the wings thereof were plucked, 
and it was lifted up from the earth 
and made stand upon the feet, as a 
man, and a man's heart was given to 
it." 

As a matter of history it is well 
known that the United States was 
plucked, to use the prophet's figure, 
from the British Empire, and the 
eagle is the symbol of her exalted Re- 
publican form of government. The 
eagle is our rightful emblem — "The 
American Eagle" with her out- 
stretched wings of power and pro- 
tection. How terse and yet compre- 
hensive the prophet's description of 
the Republican form of government 
as we interpret it — the eagle "lifted 
from the earth made stand upon the 
feet as a man and a man's heart was 
given it." 

Abraham Lincoln gave the best in- 
terpretation of this symbol when he 
said that the United States idea is a 
government of the people, for the 
people, by the people. In other words, 
ours is a poor man's government 
where the balance of power is in the 
multitude of the poor, where every 
man voter is a king and every woman 
voter is a queen and all from the 
President down to the smallest office 
holder are servants pure and simple. 

But says the prophecy: "And a 
man's heart was given it." Is it not 
true that every voter of our nation 
has an equal right, under the Austral- 
ian system to cast his vote according 
to the desire of his own heart and the 
dictates of his own conscience? 

Certainly these symbols, as ex- 



THE FOUR GREAT BEASTS. 



11 



plained by us — the Eagle's wings 
plucked from the lion and the man's 
heart given to bird of prophecy fur- 
nish our nation with the key and 
guide to the meaning of the straight 
and narrow way into the quiet har- 
bor of waiting until the second and 
third woe of this terrible world war 
come to an end. 

The first act or woe will soon and 
suddenly be over. Rev. 9: 12. — "One 
woe is past: and behold, there come 
two woes more hereafter." 

The United States will see her op- 
portunity and will not fail to cast 
anchor within the harbor of "Safety 
First" until the second and third 
woes are past. 

Every person of intelligence recog- 
nizes the nation represented in the 
prophecy under the figure of the bear. 
Daniel 7: 5. — "And behold, another 
beast, a second, like to a bear * * * 
and it had three ribs in the mouth of 
it between the teeth of it; and they 
said thus unto it, arise, devour much 
flesh." For the present, the United 
States calls for our attention so that 
I will only say that the bear is the 
great Russian Empire which has 
adopted the bear for her symbol of 
empire and for the emblem on her 
ensign. 

The ribs in beast's mouth represent 
the inhumanity of her rulers toward 
the poor of her realm. Even today 
there are cities in Russia of sixty to 
a hundred thousand people where 
there is no sewerage, water or elec- 
tric light system. Millions of these 
God-chosen people of Russia in pov- 
erty and slavery still, live in log and 
mud huts. Luke 6: 20. — "Blessed be 
ye poor: for yours is the kingdom of 
God." Having only a hole in the 



ground for a home, oppressed by 
rulers who are wicked and heartless 
grafters, no wonder that more than 
fifty thousand Russian common peo- 
ple die every winter. 

But God is saying — "Hold fast, to 
God's prophecy, cling to his word a 
little longer and the kingdom of 
Heaven in the form of a world De- 
mocracy will be yours to have and to 
hold ever and forever. And in this 
Democracy of far away Russia, the 
poor will be in the majority and 
rulership will be in the hands of will- 
ing toilers and every man voter will 
be a king and every woman voter a 
queen. Beautiful and good shall the 
government of Russia for all time 
become. God has spoken the word 
and his word cannot fail. Daniel 
7: l-lf. — "And there was given him 
dominion, and glory, and a kingdom, 
that all people, nations and lan- 
guages, should serve him : his domin- 
ion is an everlasting dominion, which 
shall not pass away, and his kingdom 
that which shall not be destroyed." 

When Christ said. Luke 6: 20. — 
"Blessed be ye poor: for yours is the 
kingdom of God." He pointed out 
the kingly and queenly rulers of the 
Democracy that is to be on the earth. 



THIRD BEAST. 



CHAPTER VI. 



Daniel 7: <>.— "After this I beheld, 
and lo another, like a leopard which 
had upon the back of it four wings 
of a fowl; the beast had also four 
heads ; and dominion was given it." 

This prophetic warning can mean 
nothing else than that we be on our 
guard against the German beast 



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whose dominion threatens the earth. 
There cannot be the slightest doubt 
as to the prophetic reference. 

In President Wilson's book entitled 
The State, page 252, he says: "Ger 
many is a federal state composed of 
four kingdoms, Prussia, Bavaria, 
Wurttemburg and Saxony." This 
shows conclusively that Germany is 
referred to by the prophet for no 
other nation has ever had four king- 
dom heads. 

In Germany the political parties 
have always been called political 
wings and she is the only empire 
which has ever been composed of four 
wings called "The Nobility, the 
Clergy, the Burghers and the Peas- 
antry." To quote the Students' Cylo- 
pedia, page 445: "The Freisinnige 
are the imperial wing and the im- 
perial wing more advanced." Fur- 
thermore Germany, as an Empire, 
calls herself the Leopard Beast and 
such reliable publications as the 
Kladderdeutsch of Berlin has been 
picturing the German Empire as a 
leopard beast. 

Such publications as the Literary 
Digest give currency to the pictorial 
representation of Germany as the 
leopard. Indeed the word leopard is 
German for it comes from the Saxon 
dialect of that Nation. 

In fact just as the leopard is the 
hybrid of the lion in Zoography so is 
the Kaiser the hybrid of the British 
Lion for the Emperor's mother was 
the Princess Royal, Victoria of Eng- 
land. 

Look well oh Kings and Queens of 
American life at what the prophet 
says of Germany, this leopard beast 
with hybrid Emperor. Daniel 7: 6. — 
"And dominion was given it." 



John 16: 12. — "I have many things 
to say unto you, but ye cannot bear 
them now." We of the United States 
are so wedded to our religious beliefs 
and our political ideas (as we call 
them) and to our love of country that 
I have not the courage to unfold the 
full interpretation of the prophecy, 
for there are times when discretion 
is the better part of valor. 
The interpretation : 

Turning now to that other great 
prophet, John the Divine, let us see 
what he has to say about this Leopard 
beast. Rev. 13: 1. — "And I stood 
upon the sand of the sea and saw a 
beast rise up out of the sea, having 
seven heads and ten horns and upon 
his horns ten crowns, and upon his 
heads the names of blasphemy and 
the beast which I saw was like unto 
a leopard." 
The interpretation: 

"Sand" in prophecy signifies peo- 
ple, {Rev. 20: 8) and the sea signifies, 
nation and tongues (Rev. 17: 15). 

When Daniel spoke of this leopard 
he thought of the original Empire of 
Germany, made up of four kingdom 
heads. But John saw it as a beast 
of prey in the midst of this great 
world war and increased to seven 
heads and ten crowns. Count up the 
kingdoms and crowns of Germ.any and 
her allies, the dominions over which 
the Kaiser now governs or rules and 
you will find that there are just seven 
kingdom heads and ten crown heads 
over whom with cunning subtlety he 
has spread his net. The end indeed 
is not yet for the prophecy reads. 
Rev. 13: 7, 8. — "And it was given to 
him to make war with the saints ; and 
to overcome them: and power was 
given him over all kindreds, and 



THIRD BEAST. 



13 



tongues, and nations, and all that 
dwell upon earth shall worship him 
whose names are not written in the 
book of life." 
The interpretation: 

The earth is the old earth, what we, 
of the United States, call the old coun- 
try—Europe, Asia and Africa. The 
new earth of North and South Am 
erica was not discovered at that time 
but John the Divine foresaw this new 
earth and pointed it out in his pro- 
phecies. Rec. 21: 1. — "And I saw a 
new earth." 

This prophecy shows that this Kai- 
ser is going to make war with the 
saints. I mean to show the whole 
world who those saint are. One of 
the first commands which God him- 
self gave to the world was this. 
Genesis 1: 28. — "And God said sub- 
due the earth." 

Is not that the present work of our 
best and bravest boys and their angel 
Red Cross sisters as they struggle in 
the trenches of France? Have they 
not laid their beautiful and precious 
lives upon the altar of God's com- 
mand? John 15: 13. — "Greater love 
hath no man than this, that a man 
lay down his life for his friends." 

Let us return to the prophecy. 
Rev. 13: 7. — "And it was given him 
to make war with the Saints and to 
overcome them." Here is another 
saying which I shall not interpret. 1 
fear vay readers are not able to bear 
it now. 

Rev. 13: 7. — "And power was given 
him over all kindreds, tongues, anc 
nations and all that dwell upon the 
earth shall worship him, whose names 
are not written in the book of life." 
The interpretation: 

My readers can interpret the first 



part of this prophecy themselves for 
it is entirely plain and simple and 
unmistakable but the Bible is the 
book of life and it shows that God 
has selected the United States to 
escape the second and third woe of 
the great world war as he chose Noah 
at the time of the flood. The Divine 
purpose is manifestly to preserve the 
United States as a model or pattern 
nation to be the guide in the coming 
world Democracy. The calamities 
described are therefore to be confined 
to the old world and will not come to 
our country. 

Soon following our war with Ger- 
many, the American boys and their 
Red Cross sisters will come home. 
As you think of them and read the 
words of Mattheiv 20: 28. — "And to 
give his life a ransom for many." 
Do not be alarmed. If the Kaiser 
holds them for ransom, do not hesi- 
tate a moment at the proposition for 
he does not know that the ransom has 
been paid. In point of fact before 
this war comes to its close there will 
be no Kaiser and no German nation 
to receive ransom at all. A more 
terrible conflict is to follow hard on 
this between Japan and Germany and 
after that a fearful pestilence and 
famine will nearly empty the old 
world of its inhabitants but the 
United States will escape. 

Rev. 13: 2. — "And the beast which 
I saw was like unto a leopard, and his 
feet were as the feet of a bear, and 
his mouth as the mouth of a lion." 

The German Leopard, Russian 
Bear and the British Lion are all 
members of one family. The kings 
of England, Russia and Germany 
are own cousins and you have often 
heard the remark that this war is 



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the offspring of a family row in the 
Royal Household. 

Rev. 13: 6. — "And he opened his 
mouth in blasphemy against God, to 
blaspheme his name, and his taber- 
nacle, and them that dwell in Hea- 
ven." As I have already shown, no- 
where in all history can you find so 
beastly a degenerate from the 
depths of Hell as this German Kaiser 
has turned out to be. No one else 
has ever opened mouth in such a 
blasphemous way against God as he 
has done, claiming nothing less than 
an equal partnership with God. i 
Cor. H: 33, well declares that "God is 
not the author of confusion." Neither 
has any other ruler of all history 
blasphemed more wickedly the taber- 
nacles of God than has he, for one of 
his first orders to his generals was to 
destroy some of God's most beautiful 
churches and cathedrals of worship. 

The Cross and the Red Cross cer- 
tainly belong to those who dwell in 
heaven and it was not very long ago 
that this Fiend of a Kaiser ordered 
his generals to destroy these emblems 
whenever seen. 

I must now speak of the saddest 
and most disheartening portion of all 
this prophecy, for just as it was pro- 
phesied that one of the twelve 
Apostles should turn traitor to Jesus 
so it is here declared that one of the 
allied nations will be a Judas. No 
power on earth can prevent this be- 
trayal. 

Rev. 13: 11, 18. — "And I beheld an- 
other beast coming up out of the 
earth: and he had two horns like a 
lamb, and he spoke as a dragon * * * 
Here is wisdom. Let him that hath 
understanding count the number of 
the beast, for it is the number of a 



man, and the number is six hundred 
three score and six." I am not going 
to interpret this prophecy until the 
war with Germany is over and that 
for many reasons — first, because our 
government would not allow one of 
her Allies to be accused of betraying 
her to Germany. Such accusation 
would be, at best, now based on one 
man's judgment, belief or opinion, 
and that before the act really takes 
place. 

My second reason for declining to 
set forth my interpretation is because 
of the want of confidence, on the part 
of so many readers in the prophecies 
themselves and the manifest error in 
judgment, belief and opinion of nine 
hundred and ninety-nine out of every 
thousand who have in the past un- 
dertaken to be interpreters of pro- 
phecy. 

Certainly no one in personal life 
would be justified in accusing a dear 
friend of the purpose to do a terrible 
wrong when such a friend had al- 
ways shown himself a kind hearted 
Christian gentleman in all the rela- 
tions of life. And surely our nation 
is right in her refusal to allow anyone 
to impeach beforehand the honor of 
any one of her Allies. 

But just as Judas disclosed and de- 
stroyed himself so will this betraying 
nation commit self-destruction in the 
second act or woe of this great and 
terrible world war. 

For as I have so often reminded 
you, we are only in the first act or 
woe of this gigantic world struggle. 
Rev. 9: 12. — "One woe is past; and, 
behold there come two woes more 
hereafter." 

To prove my identification of this 
Judas-like nation and mysterious man 



THE FOURTH BEAST. 



15 



will be easy for the key to the text is 
found (not in English words but in 
Roman numerals.) For example X 
stands for 10, V for 5, I for 1, 
L for 50, etc. They just figure up 
666, which is the number of this 
mysterious man, and the 666 is in 
Roman Numerals letters in the name 
he wears in his crown. 



THE FOURTH BEAST. 



CHAPTER VII. 



At mention of the fourth beast 
every man, woman and child in this 
country will do well to sit up and 
take notice for this beast is none 
other than the United States. 

Daniel 7: 7, ii.— "And, behold, a 
fourth beast, dreadful and terrible, 
and strong exceedingly; and it was 
diverse from all the beasts that were 
before * * * . l beheld even till 
the beast was slain, and his body de- 
stroyed, and given to the burning 
flames." 

THE KEY. 

Rev. U: 7. — "And the fourth beast 
was like a flying eagle." 

The view that the flying eagle rep- 
resents our country is confirmed by 
common consent. It is carried out 
by all the symbolism of our people. 
Note the frontispiece of the World's 
Work, the Review of Reviews and 
numberless other publications. The 
very gold and silver you use and the 
current phraseology of all our liter- 
ature confirm the usage of the eagle 
as our national emblem. National 
flag, ensign and seal all testify that 
the national instinct confesses that 
the prophet is right in his designation 
of our nation. 



Said the Boston Sunday Advertiser, 
June 16, 1918.— "Of all creatures that 
live on earth, the right one was se- 
lected when the eagle was chosen to 
represent this country and its power. 
The great bird is flying high and far 
in these days, carrying his power and 
his men across the Atlantic Ocean to 
fight the eagles of Austria and Prus- 
sia. * * We chose the right bird to 
represent the nation. This winged 
fighter flies at the head of every Am- 
erican regiment and in the heart of 
every American Soldier." 

It is a matter of history that other 
great nations have used the eagle as 
a part of their devices in flags and 
seals and emblems; but the United 
States is the only nation of all his- 
tory to adopt the flying eagle as the 
symbol of her vast government. 

The great Prophet, Daniel, 
strengthens his identification of our 
country, when he declares that the 
fourth beast is different from the 
other three he names {Dan. 7:7) for, 
as you well know, the British Lion, 
the Russian Bear and the German 
Leopard stand for Monarchies while 
the Land of the Flying Eagle is a 
Republic. 

And the prophecy also reads that 
the fourth beast was exceeding strong. 
Here too the United States is plainly 
meant for as the eminent author, L. 
A. Synith, has so clearly shown in his 
new book, The United States in Pro- 
phecy, page 19: "The United States 
is the strongest national combination 
of mankind." 

But we cannot stop here with the 
prophetic characterization of our 
country. "Behold," cries the ancient 
seer, "the fourth beast, dreadful and 
terrible." Mild indeed seems the 



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prophet's description of lion, bear 
and leopard compared with his words 
about the fourth beast. "Dreadful 
and terrible" are the adjectives used 
about the eagle. 

The synonyms given in our diction- 
ary for the word ''dreadful" bring 
out its terrific significance. They 
picture transgressions which are 
frightful and horrible while the word 
"terrible" in the text means a condi- 
tion of sin and wickedness even more 
awful than the first term used. 

We, as Americans and human be- 
ings, are wont to hold up our hands 
in holy horror when this inhuman and 
beastly Kaiser with diabolical in- 
humanity throws the bodies of our 
brave and good into the boiling 
kettles to get the fats he needs to 
make his gunpowder. And we are 
still more horrified when we read in 
the daily papers how he uses the very 
flesh of our beloved dead as dung for 
German gardens and grinds their 
bones to make meal for the hogs. Our 
indignation boils when the tidings 
come that British war prisoners are 
left by the inhuman German wretches 
to die in their agony from eating the 
bread fed to them which is made 
from ground straw. Jer. 9: 22. — 
"Thus saith the Lord, even the car- 
casses of men shall fall as dung upon 
the open field, as the handful after 
the harvest man." 

Isaiah 5S: ii.— "And the Lord 
shall make fat thy bones." 

Exodus 15: 5.— "The Lord is a man 
of war." 

Isaiah 11: 7. — "And the lion shall 
eat straw like the ox." 

Now I do not for a moment lessen 
the weight of these revolting bar- 
barities which wound so deeply our 



sensibilities ; but I am going to prove 
beyond all question of doubt that we 
have in our own United States wrongs 
and wrongdoers needing greater re- 
buke. 

Take the dastardly evil of Profit- 
eering. The Literary Digest of May 
31, 1918, quotes U. S. Senator of 
Idaho as saying before the Senate : 
"The Profiteer is the man who takes 
advantage of his country's condition, 
of its perilous situation to gather ex- 
traordinary profits, and to increase 
enormously and unjustly and unfairly 
his individual and private gain." 
And Borah declared that Congress 
should see that the money collected 
from the people does not go to such a 
scavenger of civilization as the Pro- 
fiteer is proved to be. 

I will leave it to your own good 
iudgment whether the Capitalists, 
men and women of such vast wealth 
that they can never count and will 
never use it, but who are wilfully 
prolonging this terrible war just to 
see how much money they can make 
out of it, do not deserve a hotter place 
in Hell than does even the Kaiser. 

Isaiah 58: 1. — "Cry aloud, spare 
not; lift up thy voice like a trumpet, 
and shew my people their transgres- 
sion." Ask the widowed mother who 
is praying tonight for the safe return 
of her dear boy from the horrible 
trenches of France, what she thinks 
about it. Ask the multitudes of chil- 
dren, who read that they are made 
orphans, what this profiteering which 
digs new trenches and extends new 
lines of battle where their fathers are 
to die will mean so long as this dread- 
ful and terrible conspiracy of the pro- 
fiteers is tolerated by the American 
people. 



THE FOURTH BEAST. 



17 



Put upon the witness stand our 
great and beloved President, who 
dared to face these poisonous grafters 
and vipers of our nation and tell them 
in plain English who and what they 
are. In his address to Congress, May 
27, 1918, Mr. Wilson said: "The pro- 
fiteering that cannot be got at by the 
restraints of conscience and love of 
country can be got at by taxation. 
There is such profiteering now and 
the information with regard to it is 
available and indisputable." 

Said the Vice-President of the 
United States, Mr. Marshall, in his 
Jefferson Day address: "The belief 
that there is an unequal distribution 
of wealth in this country has been 
supplemented by the belief that much 
of it has been obtained through spec- 
ial privilege, that it did not come by 
labor, skill, industry, barter or trade, 
but through watered stocks and 
bonds, through corners on commod- 
ities, through corruption of legisla- 
tures, through the sale of impure food 
stuffs, through wrecking railroads, 
through all the devices known to man 
whereby the law is not abrogated but 
chloroformed." 

Mr. Marshall protested that he had 
said nothing new, or revolutionary; 
that men like E. H. Gary and Wayne 
MacVeagh have said the same things 
in stronger language- 

Prov. 28: 22. — "He that hasteth to 
be rich hath an evil eye, and consider- 
eth not that poverty shall come upon 
him." 

This condition is the something 
"dreadful and terrible" which ought 
to make us tremble with apprehen- 
sion. 

When the United States Govern- 
ment told United States District At- 



torney George W. Anderson of Bos- 
ton to investigate the soaring prices 
of commodities, after a conference 
with Attorney-General Gregory he 
gave out this report: "Washington, 
D. C., Jan. 23, 1917. Price increases, 
resulting from artificial and illegal 
combinations have been checked as a 
result of the Government's investiga- 
tion of soaring prices for commodi- 
ties." 

Prov. 22: 22.— "Roh not the poor, 
because he is poor: neither oppress 
the afflicted." 

The eminent author, Asa Oscar 
Tait, in his world renowned book, 
Heralds of the Morning, says: "All 
are familiar with the fact that these 
large aggregations of capital crush 
out the small independent dealers, 
and hold the prices of commodities 
and the general interests of business 
within their iron grasp. It would 
be a wearisome as well as useless task 
to try to present anything like a 
tithe of the great mass of evidence 
that might be given in regard to the 
'heaping' together of treasure. Every 
one knows that the combines of 
wealth meet us at the very threshold 
of life, and follow us the journey 
through, ask a tribute at every step 
on the various necessary things of 
daily use, until finally the portals of 
the tomb are reached, and even then 
are we met by the agent of the under- 
takers' association, who collects his 
fee before our mortal remains are 
allowed to be laid at rest. Meet men 
everywhere, and their theme is 'mak- 
ing money!' Money must be had at 
all hazard. If it cannot be obtained 
honestly, it must be gained in some 
other way." 

You who read the Sunday papers 



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June 30, 1918, saw in big headlines 
these words : "WAR FRAUDS ARE 
EXPOSED; PROFITS OF 200 AND 
400 PER CENT." 

"Washington, June 29.— The Fed- 
eral Trade Commission laid wide open 
before the United States Senate this 
afternoon complete and startling ex- 
posure of what it termed flagrant 
profiteering carried on by the huge 
manufacturing and distributing con- 
cerns and monopolies. The Commis- 
sion directly charged many of them 
with inordinate greed and bare-faced 
fraud." 

"One company raised its $20,000,- 
000 capital stock in 1916 to $100,000,- 
000 without receiving a dollar more in 
cash. This prevented them, the re- 
port says, from showing enormous 
rates of profit on their original cap- 
ital." 

Says The Boston Sunday Herald, 
June 20, 1918 : "Washington, June 29. 
Profiteering on a tremendous scale in 
practically all the basic commodities 
of life was reported to the Senate to- 
day by the Federal Trade Commis- 
sion, as the result of an exhaustive in- 
vestigation. The committee reported 
'Inordinate greed and bare-faced 
fraud' as well as pressure for heavy 
product." "The report says that 
five business houses made a profit of 
$140,000,000 during the three years 
1915-16-17 as against $19,000,000 
during the three years before the 
war." 

To my mind, the words of the pro- 
phecy, "dreadful and terrible," are 
not half fierce and gigantic enough to 
fit the appalling condition of our 
United States. 



DREADFUL AND TERRIBLE. 



CHAPTER VIII. 



It is manifestly impossible in a 
small volume like this to do justice 
to the multitude of prophecies touch- 
ing this war but a passing glance at 
the most striking of them is in order. 

When the cry went forth that 
President Wilson had kept the Un- 
ited States out of war, Rev. George 
Shorey, who is one of the beacon 
lights of prophecy, said to his little 
flock in Berwick, Maine: "You are 
now hearing it said that President 
Wilson is keeping us out of war. 
Don't you believe it, for God has 
spoken it that we shall drink of its 
bitter cup." Jer. J^9: i^.— "Thus saith 
the Lord, Behold, they whose judg- 
ment was not to drink of the cup 
have assuredly drunken ; and art thou 
he that shall altogether go unpun- 
ished, but thou shalt surely drink of 
it." God is telling us that the cup 
is none other than a terrible war. 
J €7% Jf9: llf. — "Gather ye together, 
and come against her, and rise up to 
the battle." 

Who can doubt that our nation is 
meant by these prophecies. War has 
been indeed foreign to our thought as 
a nation; but our injustice and 
wrong-doing has not gone unpunished. 
We have allowed the pirate profiteer 
to steal the bread from the poor man's 
table and the very clothes from his 
child's back. This is our transgres- 
sion and we cannot go unpunished. 

But how, you ask, can such an 
accusation be proven. Take as a 
practical instance the clothing of the 
poor man's family. It is made for 
the most part of cotton. This staple 



DREADFUL AND TERRIBLE. 



19 



of life has risen from six to thirty-six 
cents a pound. Millions of bales of 
cotton are required by the govern- 
ment to make explosives, tents, uni- 
forms, surgical dressings and for 
other war purposes. While the poor 
man is struggling to clothe his fam- 
ily and to meet his contribution to 
Liberty Loans and all the exactions 
of war time, the profiteering thieves 
to whom President Wilson as quoted 
in the last chapter has spoken so 
fearlessly, have been pocketing their 
400 per cent, of ungodly gain from 
the necessities of life. Who can es- 
timate the price in flesh and blood of 
such iniquity. We may forget the 
transgression as we watch the proud 
eagle's flight. Jcr. h9: L';?.— "Behold, 
he shall come up and fly as the eagle, 
and spread his wings over Bozrah." 
But suff"er for our sins, we must 
Bozrah, let us remember, is the 
region of the Dead Sea of Palestine 
where the Eagle of the United States 
has gone to drink of the bitterest cup 
of all tribulation in this fierce and 
gigantic war. 

But what punishment for our na- 
tional sins can be more dreadful and 
terrible than to see our best young 
men, the flower of our country, gone 
to the trenches of France and to know 
that Jcv. Ud: 26, is come to pass: 
"Therefore her young men shall fall 
in her streets." 

But without entering into all the 
details and shadings of meaning in 
this forty-ninth chapter of Jere- 
miah's prophecy, we cannot help ask- 
ing in the light of it, where shall we 
place the responsibility for America's 
entrance into this world conflict? 
And according to this chapter we can 
only blame ourselves for our part 



therein. And in the last analysis, we 
must confess that our wickedness has 
really driven us into this war. We, 
as a nation, have been most devoted 
worshippers of Mammon, the false 
god of gold and silver. 

In the United States, the land of 
free schools, free churches, free 
parks, free museums, free hospitals 
and where even the poor man's home 
has more comforts and luxuries than 
a King's palace used to have not so 
many years ago — even in this land of 
boasted freedom, money-mad and 
money-crazy are the task masters and 
the slave owners that have put us into 
the war. 

/ Ti7n. 6: 10.— "For the love of 
money is the root of all evil which 
while some coveted after, they have 
erred from the faith and pierced 
themselves through with many sor- 
rows." 

And this love of money is 
very subtle and very crafty. 
When Congressmen Gardiner and 
Hobson and other foresighted legis- 
lators saw what the Kaiser meant to 
do, they made a desperate appeal to 
the nation for an adequate policy of 
self-defence. These patriots were 
defeated by the worshippers of Mam- 
mon who sent their lobbyists to 
Washington to say to Representative 
and Senator: "We do not deem it 
necessary that the United States pre- 
pare for self-defence." It was the 
love of money and not the hatred of 
war that spoke. And it was the fear 
of Mammon which bade the author- 
ities at Washington reply: "Very 
well, you are the boss and we must 
do as you say." 

It is this same money-mad people 
which gives us that terrible modern 



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BIBLE PROPHECIES. 



word graft which we recognize in 
every household and on every street 
corner as a national transgression by 
which certain pork barrel politicians 
and their friends are given free access 
to our country's treasury and are 
bidden to help themselves. And the 
people, business men and newspaper 
editors, clergy and all give their ap- 
proval by their silence, money crazy 
being the muffler. 

Had we been prepared for a strong 
defence as God warned us to prepare 
(Joel 3: 9, 10) we could have said to 
Germany: "Stop right where you 
are, Old Leopard, or we will join the 
Allies and crush you into the dust." 
We could have halted Germany be- 
fore the door of little Belgium and 
have smothered the war at the very 
beginning. 

But when the United States saw 
that gigantic beast named Germany 
ready to devour innocent little Bel- 
gium, did our nation cry out as a 
mother would have done for a child in 
the jaws of some big savage beast? 
Alas, No! Our love of money, our 
greed for foreign gold saw a rare op- 
portunity to make immense profits 
from the warring nations while our- 
selves neutral. Senators and Con- 
gressmen gave their approval by 
silence and their constituents at home 
were silent also. 

In 1916 at Cleveland and Pittsburg 
our God-given and faithful President 
gave the alarm, crying: "The world 
is on fire. The country must prepare 
itself, not for war, not for aggression, 
but for self-defence." 

Luke 17: 26. — "As it was in the 
days of Noe." 

President Wilson warned the Un- 
ited States but we could not heed the 



warning. Money was our only God. 
Fortunes grew with lightning speed. 
Hotter waxed the flames of war until 
the sparks were swept by the east 
wind far out onto the great Atlantic 
and the Lusitania caught fire and 
went down. But still the people and 
their legislators were silent while 
profits grew apace. 

And now we are paying the price 
of our avarice and Mammon worship 
with the life of our most precious 
youth in the trenches of France- 
Matt. 26: 52.— "Then said Jesus, they 
that take the sword shall perish with 
the sword." 

Wilson gave the true interpretation 
of this passage when he said : "We 
must prepare this country, not for 
war but for self-defence." To say 
nothing of the sorrow, pain and waste 
of life, it is costing billions for war 
where it would have cost only millions 
for self-defence. 

Who is to blame? Verily we are 
all guilty and we are all being pun- 
ished — some in pain, some in fear, 
others with a guilty conscience. And 
in many cases those who have died on 
the battlefield have suffered far less 
than have the members of the family 
circle at home. 

But, as it was in the Garden of 
Eden, each is wont to lay the blame 
on the other. God however is no re- 
specter of persons and He finds us 
all guilty and we all are receiving our 
allotment of suffering. 

In the matter of public responsibil- 
ity, we do well to use the key Presi- 
dent Wilson gave us in his address to 
Congress when he said : "If the lobby- 
ists hurry to Washington to attempt 
to turn what you do in the matter of 
taxation to their protection or advan- 



DREADFUL AND TERRIBLE. 



21 



tage, the light will beat also upon 
them. There is abundant fuel for 
the light in the records of the treas- 
ury with regard to profits of every 
sort. The profiteering that cannot 
be got at by the restraints of con- 
science and love of country can be got 
at by taxation." 

If you read between the lines of 
the President's address, you will find 
written something like this: "You 
Congressmen have been potter's clay 
in the hands of these rich men who 
have neither conscience or love of 
country. This has gone on long 
enough. I am the pilot of this Ship 
of State and from now on, if you do 
not behave yourselves, I will expose 
you as faithless servants of the peo- 
ple who sent you to Washington." 

Now this very matter of represen- 
tation raises a new and vital question 
of responsibility. Here in New Hamp- 
shire, for example, since prohibition 
has come into effect, Manchester 
which used to send 750 to jail, now 
sends about 50. How many of our 
voters have exercised their kingly 
right to direct representation in 
Washington? How many men have 
written our Congressmen there to 
vote the Nation dry once and for all. 

Let our Congressmen find that the 
people at home are watching them 
and the lobbyist, the grafters, the 
minions of rum barrels and pork bar- 
rels will soon disappear. 

Oh that the American people might 
run this idea of authority and respon- 
sibility back to its fountain head. 
The Kaiser is not so much to blame 
for our entrance into this struggle as 
are the rich capitalists whose greed 
for gold played such a part in its 
coming our way- Our legislators 



were recreant to their trust when 
they failed to give our country an 
honest policy of self-defence at the 
most critical stage of the nation's de- 
cision. And the Congressmen and 
Senators do not deserve so severe a 
censure as do their constituents at 
home who were silent when protest 
and instruction was a sacred duty. 
God's law and man's law both decree 
that the master is more responsible 
than his servant for the breaking of 
a commandment such as God has 
given to our nation. 

In more than a thousand ways has 
the Almighty flagged the crossing for 
us, tolling us to stop our mad chase 
after gold till this war train should 
pass. Billions of money and millions 
of graves where our choicest boys and 
their Red Cross sisters lie dead is 
what we have to show for our fatal 
disregard of God's commandments. 

John H: 15. — "If ye love me, keep 
my commandments." 

John 15: 10. — "If ye keep my com- 
mandments, ye shall abide in my 
love." 



PEACE CONFERENCE. 



CHAPTER IX. 



You remember how King Saul in 
an hour of dire distress went to con- 
sult the Witch of Endor (/ Sam. 
!S: 7.) His desire was to learn what 
the morrow had for him and how his 
ccrcat battle with the Philistines was 
to turn. 

Not unlike the ancient King's ques- 
tion is the well nigh universal longing 
of today for someone to tell us how 
and when this calamitous war is to 
end. And God seems to meet by his 



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BIBLE PROPHECIES. 



own word this instinctive need. The 
world has been filled from the be- 
ginning with sorrow, pain and de- 
struction from the failure of man's 
judgments and counsels but I have 
yet to find a single instance in all his- 
tory where God's word has fallen 
short of fulfillment- 
How easy it is to find among our 
neighbors and friends those who say 
that they have lost their faith in pro- 
phecy because so many have been 
mistaken about the time for the Com- 
ing of the Lord. It is as if these 
people should throw away all their 
arithmetic because of some child's 
mistake in figuring some problem in 
numbers. 

It makes not a whit's difference 
what Mr. Brown or Mrs. Jones may 
think or tell you, the Word of God 
tells you {Rev. 9: 12) that we are 
near the end of the first act of a vast 
threefold war drama or tragedy of 
humanity. You can see for your- 
self the program, most of it at least, 
for this first act. And while I do not 
believe that the government or the 
people would stand for my reading of 
the plain and unmistakable words of 
Scripture I must declare the first woe 
will end in a manner exceedingly fav- 
orable to the United States. And 
our Nation, let me say also, is going 
to have a splendid opportunity to es- 
cape the awful and calamitous issue 
of the second act or woe in the world 
history. But at this point, I want 
to directly consider with you what 
God has foretold is to take place dur- 
ing the lull which is about to arrive 
in this terrible world storm. 

Just as there is always a short wait 
of a few moments between the first 
and second acts of any drama, so at 



present Germany and her Allies as 
well as England and her Allies are 
beginning to talk peace terms. And 
it is said on both sides that the war 
cannot be won by force of arms alone. 
With the exception of France, the 
nations abroad that have issues at 
stake are monarchies. The royal 
families must justify themselves and 
their action before their people or 
there will be trouble; and so to 
save their jobs as royal monarchs, 
these potentates are going to deal with 
Russia as a fat prize. And they will 
say to their subjects : "See what God 
has given you for being loyal to us 
and to the throne and flag of your 
country. 

Germany, according to the pro- 
phecies is going to get the Pope of 
Rome to intercede and to employ 
Japan to make overtures for a Peace 
Conference between the powers at 
war. Rev. 20: 2, 4. — "And I saw an 
angel come down from heaven having 
the key* * * and he laid hold on the 
dragon, that old serpent * * and I saw 
thrones, and they sat upon them and 
judgment was given unto them." It 
is perfectly clear that the two old 
Empires which still retain their 
thrones, are China, the dragon na- 
tion, and Japan, the serpent nation, 
which bows in reverence to the ser- 
pent. 

These monarchial rulers will nat- 
urally appeal to the Pope because he 
loves so greatly the people and they 
in turn love him. Japan will be the 
nation employed as intermediary be- 
cause the United States stands in the 
way and must be delicately handled; 
and Japan is above all the nation that 
has the cinch upon our country. No 
other people can so safely say to us 



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23 



as may Japan: "Come now Sammy, 
be good and take some of your own 
medicine which you gave to us when 
we had our Russian trouble. The 
cup was a very bitter one for us to 
take but we followed your advice. 
Now the tables are turned and we 
ask you to yield and take the cup of 
peace however bitter the terms may 
seem to you." 

P^or America the ancient prophetic 
wisdom holds true: Eccl. 11: 1. — 
"Cast thy bread upon the waters : for 
thou shalt find it after many days." 

Gal. 6: 7. — "Be not deceived; God is 
not mocked : for whatsoever a man 
soweth, that shall he also reap." 

When it comes to the terms of 
peace, the United States will say : 
"We did not enter this war to gain 
either indemnity or new territory; 
we had and have no other object in 
view except to make the world safe 
for Demcracy." Then England and 
her allies will assure the United 
States to that effect. There will re- 
main to our brave boys and their 
Red Cross sisters the privilege of 
folding their tents and packing their 
knapsacks and soon they will be 
homeward bound. How many mil- 
lions of happy hearts will welcome 
them. And the happy nation will 
once more clasp them to her breast. 

Rev. U: 1. — "And behold a door was 
opened in heaven." Deliverance from 
this war and the coming back to us 
of our young people from the trenches 
of France will be indeed taste enough 
of heaven. To see the Pope, the 
angel of God's mercy, as he pleads 
with the world to put an end to the 
ruin and murder now going on will 
surely pass for the opening of a door 
jn heaven. For if you do not call 



this war hell on earth where wiW you 
look for a picture thereof. 

The moment England and her 
allies give assurance to the United 
States that our Democracy will be 
provided for in this coming Peace 
Conference, there will be a golden 
opportunity for our country to make 
for the haven of rest and the harbor 
of peace. And there we may hope to 
stay with patience until the second 
woo of the world conflict has passed. 
The channel to this port of safety will 
prove to be narrow and difticult. 
Many will be the turnings and shoals 
of human experience which must be 
met- 

Many will be the reefs of criticism, 
the jutting rocks of scorn and even 
the headlands of violence which must 
bo passed before our ship of state 
shall find safe anchorage. But just 
as moorings are found there will 
hurst upon the world the wild fury 
of the second storm of woe. How 
clearly did God foretell and fore- 
warn as to the nation's course to be 
followed into this diflficult anchorage. 

/ Peter 3: 11. — "Seek peace and 
pursue it." 

Romans lU: 10. — "Let us there- 
fore follow after the things which 
make for peace." 

Uikc 13: 23, 2U. — "Are there few 
that be saved! And he said unto 
them, strive to enter in at the strait 
gate." 

Matt. 7: 13, i.^.— "Enter ye in at 
the strait gate; for wide is the gate, 
and broad is the way, that leadeth to 
destruction, and many there be which 
go in thereat. Because strait is the 
gate, and narrow is the way, which 
leadeth unto life and few there be 
that find it." 



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BIBLE PROPHECIES. 



Let it not be thought for a moment 
that God limited his warning to our 
native land. Christ said to all the 
world : "This is the harbor ; it is diffi- 
cult but strive to enter there." 

Matt. 7: 12, i 5.— "Therefore all 
things whatsoever ye would that men 
should do to you, do even so to them 
and enter ye in at the strait gate." 

Nor is the Scripture silent as to the 
broad way of destruction that looms 
before the United States of America. 

/ Tim. 6: 10.— "For the love of 
money is the root of all evil: which 
while some coveted after, they have 
erred from the faith and pierced them- 
selves through with many sorrows." 
In going after war-profits when she 
should have sought self-defence and 
followed the maxim. Safety First, 
our country has already received her 
bitter lesson. 

In this peace conference to be held 
with Germany, the European Mon- 
archs will cut Russia in pieces as a 
bird is carved at dinner. Her vast 
wheat fields will be the serving. Ger- 
many and her allies on the one hand, 
England and her allies on the other, 
will receive rich portions of Russia's 
domain. But China and Japan will 
only receive the meanest and most 
meager share of the spoils of war. 

Then these two nations will come 
to see that they have been hoodwinked 
and cheated by the so-called Christian 
powers. They will understand that 
the reigning monarchs of Europe 
have used them as a catspaw to se- 
cure peace and stop the war. Bit- 
terly will they also come to realize 
that the real motive in the division of 
Russia is to preserve monarchial gov- 
ernments in the old world, and to 
head off and prevent the republican 



form which is government of the 
people and for the people and by the 
people from taking its supreme place 
in all the nations of the earth. 

Then will God lift the curtain on 
the second act of the world tragedy 
and compared with this new world 
woe all that has come before will 
seem like child's play. In this strug- 
gle Japan and China in alliance will 
win the victory. 

Japan, it must be confessed, has 
been compelled to distrust the nations 
that pretend to be Christian and 
Japan and China stand today in 
marked contrast over against the so- 
called Christian nations, which have 
behaved in such unchristian fashion. 

Japan has not bowed down before 
our god of gold and silver but has 
kept out of this war as far as possible 
and has gone irresistably forward in 
preparing for a tremendous and 
colossal self-defence. Leaving China 
out of the question Japan has today 
13,000,000 eager, hardy soldiers, all 
drilled, equipped and ready for swift 
warfare. In Japan food in dry and 
condensed form, sufficient for six 
solid years, has been laid by both for 
army and populace. With her house 
of war built on the solid rock Japan, 
when the time comes, is going to 
sweep out over Europe, Asia and 
Africa. 

Luke 6: .'+8. — "He (The Japanese) 
is like a man which built an house, 
and digged deep, and laid the founda- 
tion on a rock: and when the flood 
arose, the stream beat vehemently 
upon his house, and could not shake 
it: for it was founded upon a rock." 

In the second woe that is to come 
Japan with the help of China will win 



SECOND ACT. 



25 



against the so-called Christian na- 
tions of Europe. 

Rev. 20: f.4._"The dragon, that 
old serpent must be loosed a little 
season * * * And I saw thrones 
and they set upon them, and judg- 
ment was given unto them." 



SECOND ACT. 



CHAPTER X. 



As we have already shown, Japan 
and China will utterly resent and re- 
pudiate their treatment by the so- 
called Christian nations. They will 
reason that just as Russia has been 
caught in a trap and eaten up so they 
in turn may be beguiled and then de- 
voured by the European powers. 

By this time Japan will be ready to 
say: "What better hour will ever 
come than just now to establish safe 
and just rights for my people" And 
the world will speedily see the Ser- 
pent and the Dragon warriors let 
loose for a little season of seven years 
Rev. 20: 3-.^. — "And after that, he 
(the dragon) must be loosed a little 
season * * * And I saw thrones, 
and they sat upon them, and judg- 
ment was given unto them." Rev. 
13: h' — "And they worshipped the 
dragon." 

God has said in this prophecy that 
the dragon and the serpent would b( 
linked as members of one family. 
Both are yellow races and not so long 
ago an alliance was completed be- 
tween them. To be sure in a sense 
they are different, for a dragon has 
wings and a serpent has none. 

China is known the world over a 
the dragon nation. The dragon is 
the accepted symbol of her vast em- 



pire. She hails it on her ensign and 
worships it as a part of her religion. 

Japan through her alliance with 
China is a part of course of the dra- 
gon empire. The real difference be- 
tween the two is however that China 
worships the serpent with wings 
while Japan reverences the serpent 
without wings. 

In the Kansas City Star a short 
time ago you could have read this 
same quotation that I clipped from 
The Boston Sunday Herald of Feb- 
11, 1917, which says: "The year 1917, 
according to ancient Japanese tradi- 
tion, is known as the year of the ser- 
pent * * * Among the Japanese the 
serpent is always regarded as the em- 
blem of good fortune and on that ac- 
count is revered instead of being 
killed by the great masses of the peo- 
ple. The Japanese word, 'mi,' so 
popular in Japan, means serpent. The 
goddess Benton, one of the seven 
popular gods and goddesses of for- 
tune, is traditionally believed to be 
the patron of the serpent. At every 
shrine dedicated to the popular god- 
dess of fortune are kept a number of 
the reptiles sacred to the deity. They 
are treated with reverence." 

The great age of these thrones — 
dragon and serpent alike — is declared 
in the prophecy. Rev. 20: 2. — "The 
dragon, that old serpent." The fact 
is that the sovereign dynasty of 
Japan remains unbroken since 660 
B. C. And the throne of China dates 
back to the reign of Yaou (2356 B. 
C.) The very etymology of the 
word dragon confirms the statement 
of Matt. 5: 18, as to the fulfillment of 
every jot and tittle of God's word- 
Dragon represents a creature, mon- 
strous, powerful and ferocious. The 



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Japanese alliance creates an empire 
the most gigantic and powerful of. any 
in the world, and certainly Japan's 
war with Russia shows nothing short 
of ferocity. And if you call zoology 
to the aid of prophecy, you will dis- 
cover that the serpent big and feroc- 
ious can put to flight any leopard or 
lion of the jungle. 

Mark well that the prophecy 
asserts that to these old judgment 
thrones of dragon and serpent not 
only Germany but also England and 
her allies will be inevitably called. 
Should Japan term her treaty with 
England only a scrap of paper as 
Germany was treacherous enough to 
tio and what direful results might 
follow for Great Britain. Let Japan 
once give her power into the hands 
of Germany, England could never in 
the world end this Avar. 

It is plain enough to see that Brit- 
ain and her allies stand today before 
the judgment seat of Japan and can 
be made to eat the very dust if the 
dragon and serpent empires so de- 
cree. 

But such a verdict would be en- 
tirely foreign to the spirit and policy 
of Japan. She has proved herself 
the possessor of too much stability 
and fidelity for any such treachery as 
that. But at the same time, the 
hypocrisy and injustice in the spoil- 
ing and division of Russia by the 
Christian nations (so-called at least) 
of Europe must as we have shown, 
inevitably bring vast destruction and 
desolation upon the old world. To 
realize this you have only to read 
again prophetic sentences like the 
following : 

Isaiah 21^: i-^.— "Behold, the Lord 
maketh the earth empty, and maketh 



it waste, and turneth it upside down, 
and scattereth abroad the inhabitants 
thereof * * * The land shall be 
utterly emptied * * * : therefore the 
inhabitants of the earth are burned, 
and fevv men left." 

Exodus 15: 3. — "The Lord is a man 
of war, the Lord is his name." 

Jer- 21: lU. — "But I will punish you 
according to the fruit of your do- 
ings." 

Jer. 2U: iO.— "And I will send the 
sword, the famine, and the pestilence, 
among them, till they be consumed 
from off the land that I gave unto 
them and to their fathers." 

Jer. 25: 32, 55.— "Thus saith the 
Lord, behold, evil shall go forth from 
nation to nation and the slain of the 
Lord shall be in that day from one 
end of the earth even unto the other 
end of the earth : they shall not be 
lamented, neither gathered, nor 
buried; they shall be dung upon the 
ground." 

Jer. 46: 28.— '! will make a full 
end of all nations." 

Amos 5: 19, 20. — "As if a man did 
flee from a lion, and a bear met him ; 
or went into the house, and leaned 
his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit 
him. Shall not the day of the Lord 
be darkness, and not light? even very 
dark, and no brightness in it." 

Here in this prophecy of Amos is 
a picture of the course which the Kai- 
ser will pursue, he will flee from the 
British Lion and Britain's allies and 
he will try to save the German Leo- 
pard by asking the Pope to intercede 
for Germany through Japan. Peace 
by compromise is the aim, a generous 
slice of Russia being given, as I have 
said, to England and a good share 
of the stricken country of the Rus- 



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27 



sian being kept for the German peo- 
ple. The Kaiser will lean upon the 
wall of the house where the peace 
conference is to be held and as he 
prays for a portion of Russia's wheat 
and ore lands the serpent nation of 
Japan will bite the pleading monarch- 
And all the monarchial powers of 
the old world will see their end and 
be ready for a world Democracy. 

If you would learn what Japan 
thinks about the devouring of Russia 
by the Hun read the Boston Herald 
and Journal of July 11, 1918: "Lon- 
don, July 10 — Dr. Sakue Takahashi. 
Professor of International Law at 
the Tokio University, arguing in ex- 
Premier Okuma's new magazine for 
Japanese intervention in Siberia, is 
quoted by the Times as saying: 
'Japan's defeat of Russia exposed Rus- 
sia's weakness especially to theKaiser; 
hence Japan is probably responsible 
for Russia's collapse and it is Japan's 
duty to save her. I think President 
Wilson errs in placing Bolsheviki pro- 
fessions on a plane comparable with 
the democary of the United States.' 

"When we think of the danger to 
Siberia which threatens the future of 
Japan, a danger from a nation far 
more efficient and more to be dreaded 
than ever was Russia in the old 
regime, it becomes our right to in- 
tervene in Siberia." 

The Kaiser has to my mind trapped 
himself. He must get a slice of Rus- 
sia or the Germans will kick him from 
his throne. And Japan will punish 
him and his allies for his folly by a 
more cruel, deadly and ferocious war 
than this present conflict has ever 
dreamed of being. 

Rev. 20: 2, 3, 8. — "And the dragon 
that old serpent * * * must be 



loosed a little season * * * and the 
nations which are in the quarters of 
the earth, Gog and Magog to gather 
them to battle and the number of 
whom is as the sands of the sea." 

We are here shown the gigantic im- 
mensity of the conflict which is to 
take place between the hypocrite wor- 
shippers of the God of Mammon, call- 
ing themselves Christian nations and 
the genuine Christian Pagan worship- 
pers of the principles of fair play 
and "Love thy neighbor as thyself." 
The god of the Pagan worshippers 
will win, God has said it and his 
word cannot fail. 

Rev. 20: 2-4.— "The dragon that 
old serpent * * * must be loosed a 
little season * * * and judgment 
was given unto them." 

Do you ask the place where the 
Waterloo and Gettysburg battle of 
this new world conflict will be fought! 
The Divine answer is Rev. 16: lU, 16- 
— "Which go forth unto the kings of 
the earth and of the whole world, to 
gather them to the battle of that 
threat day of God Almighty. And he 
gathered them together unto a place 
called in the Hebrew tongue Arma- 
geddon." 

Armageddon isthe very ancient and 
most famous battlefield of history. It 
was the scene of Barak's victory over 
Canaan, and Gideon's over Milian, 
the place also of Saul's death and 
Israel's defeat before the Philistines 
and of Josiah's death when he was in 
battle against Pharoah Necho. This 
famous battlefield is on the plain of 
Esdraelon at the foot of Mount Gilboa 
ten miles southeast of Nazareth. 
Rev. 20: 8. — "The nations which are 
in the four quarters of the earth, 
Gog and Magog, to gather them 



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to battle." But just here is where 
the value and use of prophecy comes 
into play. // Peter 1: 19.— ''We 
have a sure word of prophecy: 
whereunto ye do well that ye take 
heed, as unto a light that shineth 
in a dark place." God is telling the 
United States that they must take 
no part in this second act or second 
woe of the world war. We must re- 
tire our interests in the war from 
the old country at the earliest oppor- 
tunity, accept none of the spoils and 
loot which will be taken by the 
European Monarchs from Russia be- 
cause God is going to wipe out of 
existence these Monarchial forms of 
government. 

If I had in my possession an old 
fire trap of a tenement house, a hell 
hole of vice and crime, a nesting place 
of murder and a breeding stall for 
contagion and disease — if a fire had 
burnt a portion of it as the war with 
Germany has destroyed autocracy 
rule in Europe, I know what my bus- 
iness policy would be- In my desire 
to give my tenants an up-to-date, fire- 
proof and sanitary structure, I should 
first clean out and destroy the rem- 
nants of the old structure and start 
anew. This is just what God is going 
to do with these ancient monarchial 
governments or rotten relics of gov- 
ernment before taking steps to erect 
a world Democracy. 

Christ spoke the truth in this 
whole matter when he said: Matt. 
9: 16. — "No man putteth a piece of 
new cloth into an old garment, for 
that which is put in to fill it up taketh 
from the garment, and the rent is 
made worse." 

Luke 5: 36-39. — "And he spake 
also a parable unto them; no man 



putteth a piece of a new garment 
upon an old; if otherwise, then both 
the new maketh a rent, and the piece 
that was taken out of the new agreeth 
not with the old. And no man 
putteth new wine into old bottles ; else 
the new wine will burst the bottles 
and be spilled, and the bottles shall 
perish, but new wine must be put into 
new bottles; and both are preserved. 
No man also having drunk old wine 
straightway desireth new: for he 
saith, The old is better." 

Rome tried to put the new wine of 
a democracy into her monarchial 
bottles of humanity and the result 
was a return to kingly form of ruling. 
God is going to give the Old World a 
new wine of democracy but not in the 
old bottles fashioned according to 
monarchial forms. These ancient 
relics of autocracy must be destroyed. 
The Sodom and Gomorrah day of ret- 
ribution will come as we have al- 
ready said to the monarchs and mon- 
archies of the old world and our na- 
tion is bidden by the Almighty to get 
away from European affairs as Lot 
was commanded to flee from Sodom. 
Our own dooryard is the safest place 
for American institutions and gov- 
ernment until the time comes for the 
setting up of the great world democ- 
racy for which we stand- 

A full outline of this great Japan 
war is plainly set forth in the 38th 
and 39th chapters of Ezekiel's pro- 
phecy. We are told {Ezek. 38: 2) 
that God's face will be against Eng- 
land and Germany. In the 9th verse 
of the same chapter, it is shown that 
the struggle will come like a terrible 
storm and continue (9th verse of 
39th chapter) for seven years. The 
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29 



declares that it will take seven 
months, after the last battle is 
fought, to bury the dead. The impli- 
cation in Ezek. 39: 18 plainly indi- 
cates that human flesh will be eaten 
at the table. 

The passages in the 38th chapter 
indicate that the whole old world will 
be involved "Sheba" (Africa) "De- 
dam" (Asia), "The merchants of 
Tarshish" (Europe), "and all the 
young lions" (islands;) and it will 
take place in the "latter days." This 
expression "latter days" means the 
closing end of the old monarchial 
forms of government. 



THIRD ACT. 



CHAPTER XL 



Rev. 11: Ik. — "The second woe is 
past : and behold the third woe 
Cometh quickly." The last act of 
this stupendous world tragedy will 
come quickly. We need look for no 
peace conference between the second 
and third acts of this drama, so speed- 
ily will the third woe follow upon the 
second that Japan will have no time 
even to change her war clothes. The 
battle scenes of war between Japan 
and the European nations will quickly 
shift to war between Japan and the 
United States. 

Isaiah 29: 9. — "They are drunken 
but not with wine : they stagger, but 
not with strong drink." 

ProV' 1: 32. — "The prosperity of 
fools shall destroy them." Prosperity 
and wine are alike in this that they 
bring about weakness of mind and 
errors in judgment. How many there 
are who can date the beginning of 
their adversity as the high tide of 



their prosperity turned into the low 
tide of misfortune. "Prosperity," 
says Wcbater, "doth bewitch men, 
seeming clear ; as seas do laugh, show 
white, when rocks are near." 

George Herbert once said : "Pros- 
perity lets go the bridle." 

Hare, the famous writer declares : 
"There is a glare about worldly suc- 
cess which is very apt to dazzle men's 
eyes." 

Japan's victory over all the na- 
tions of Europe, Asia and Africa will 
indeed dazzle her eyes. This success 
in war will be God's instrument to 
bring about her downfall and this 
trustworthy and valuable people will 
receive in place of an outgrown and 
discarded monarchial government, 
one truly republican in its character. 
Cicero, that great orator and 
statesman of antiquity plainly saw 
that the human mind is a mental 
weather-vane. He says: "Great 
events cast their shadow before." 

John Henry Newman realizing the 
same truth puts it into verse : 

"When Heaven sends sorrow, 

Warnings go first, 

Lest it should burst 

On souls too bright 

To fear the morrow." 
But Jesus, that master mind of all 
history, in that parable which is 
more than a parable declares : "When 
it is evening, ye say it will be fair 
weather for the sky is red. And in 
the morning, It will be foul weather 
today: for the sky is red and lower- 
ing. O ye hypocrites ye can discern 
the face of the sky; but can ye not 
discern the signs of the times?" 

Matt. 13: 5^.— "All these things 
spake Jesus in parables : and without 
a parable spake he not unto them" 



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Christ tried to show the world that 
the mind is a weather vane of coming 
human events in the same way that 
the sky indicates the coming weather. 

King George of England, for in- 
stance, was forging chains of injus- 
tice and heavy taxation for the young 
American colonies. And they in turn 
were beginning to have mental vis- 
ions of freedom and liberty even up 
to the eventful day when Patrick 
Henry voiced in unmistakable tones 
the presence of bad weather for Great 
Britain's rule. "Give me liberty or 
give me death," was the cry in which 
the storm broke. 

The weather vane of our nation's 
mental sky began long before the 
Civil war broke out to portend what 
was going to happen. For up to the 
commencement of that war, the sev- 
eral states were sovereign and had 
at will, the constitutional right to 
leave the Union. 

You only need to read the Lincoln- 
Douglas debates to read in the mind- 
sky of the times what was on the 
way — "A government of the people, 
for the people and by the people" — E 
pluribus unum." 

The mental sky of humanity is now 
portending a greater war than the 
struggle with Germany can ever 
prove to be. And the coming world 
democracy can never be set up until 
this later and larger conflict has been 
accomplished. 

The World's Crisis, Jan. 23, 1918, 
says: "While the present war seems 
well nigh large enough to fill the 
mould of a Bible Armageddon, it is a 
fact that some statesmen are already 
predicting the possibility of a worse 
conflict." 

And the Literary Digest declares: 



"We find the editors of 'The Navy' 
looking for a world wide convulsion 
that may set race against race and 
continent against continent. Instead 
of this being the last great war, he 
believes, it is much more probably 
but the first of a series of tremendous 
world wide conflicts that will be 
fought by the inhabitants of the 
earth for national supremacy." 

Said the New York Weekly Wit- 
ness, April 4, 1917 : "It is reasonable 
to assume that we are witnessing the 
fulfillment of one of the prophecies 
of dire calamity which are found in 
the book of Revelation. But three 
successive series of calamities are 
predicted in that book." 

I could give a dozen more just such 
quotations showing which way our 
mental weather vanes are pointing 
and what do they tell us? What do 
we discern? In common every day 
speech what shall we, of the United 
States, be up against when this third 
great woe of history begins? 

One of the master minds of Amer- 
ica, Ex-President Theodore Roose- 
velt, in writing to his friend, Major 
Griscom, Jan. 3, 1918, made this 
assertion : "The Orient is certain to 
be a center of international conten- 
tion. Every means should be adopted 
to bind up our relations, in close and 
permanent friendship, with both 
Japan and China." 

Another of our far seeing publi- 
cists, Charles E. Hughes, not long ago 
made the assertion before the New 
York State Bar Association: "Tb 
old Orient is only at the beginning of 
history. Japan and China are na- 
tions of the future not of the past." 

It is easy to forecast in the mental 
sky of our time the portents of what 



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31 



the third act of the world war will 
bring. Not long ago the following 
words of the distinguished Persian 
poetess, Madame de St. Poirit, caught 
my eye : "America, soft, rich and lux- 
urious, awaits the fate of Greece, 
Rome and Babylonia. After becom- 
ing the greatest money power in the 
world we shall inevitably suffer a 
colossal, disastrous invasion by the 
yellow races. The conquering yel- 
low hordes will revel in the luxurious 
homes of wealthy Americans. Her 
cities and palaces of trade will fall 
before the invaders, as Persepolis and 
the Empire of Xerxes before the 
small, swift-moving, hardy forces of 
Alexander the Great. Just as the 
Romans of the decadence feasted and 
wantoned under the very shadow o 
the invading barbarians, so will the 
Americans continue their pursuit of 
wealth and commercial supremacy 
until the yellow peril catches them 
helpless and unprepared." 

This is what Ex-Congressman Cur- 
leij, then Mayor of Boston, said in 
Faneuil Hall (called the "cradle of 
liberty") on Feb. 12, 1917, at the 
nineteenth observiance by the Un- 
ited Spanish War Veterans of the 
sinking of the Maine: "The real 
enemy of the United States is not to 
be found in Europe but in the Orient. 
The nation this country should watch 
is Japan and I hope and pray the Un- 
ited States will not become involved 
in the great world war in Europe, but 
will conserve its resources for the 
struggle that, I am afraid, is bound to 
come. The Japanese are our natural 
enemy, as long as we continue to ex- 
ercise autonomy in any degree in the 
Philippines, and endeavor to main- 
tain the open door policy in China- 



The island empire • is puffed with 
arrogance over false presumption. 
Its triumph over Russia has led Japan 
to believe it can conquer any nation 
and it has selected the United States 
as its next victim." 

At Tokio, Japan, Nov. 5, 1915, 
Shuriro Yamanki, a Japanese leader 
of liberal thought, inflamed all Japan 
with these words: "Japanese pub- 
lic opinion demands war with the 
United States. Within four years 
Japan will be at war with the United 
States." 

The following words were clipped 
from a native Japanese newspaper 
called Chugat CJmnpo: "We are and 
will be for all time, the masters of 
the seas of Asia. Our strength will 
permit the realization of the desire, 
so long cherished, of establishing our- 
selves on the Western coast of Am- 
erica." 

T)ic Boston American becomes re- 
sponsible for this statement in a re- 
cent issue: "Japan plans to invade 
and conquer the United States. Japan 
is inflaming its people against the 
United States. The Japanese are de- 
termined to declare war upon us. 
Her army and navy comisariat de- 
partments are now working day and 
night in order that adequate supplies 
of her own compressed food may be 
ready. The Tokyo arsenal is also 
working night and day in the making 
of amunition of all kinds." 

Day for "yellow peril" here says 
Anglican Bishop (by International 
news service) London, Dec. 3: "The 
time of the 'y^^ow peril' has come," 
said the Anglican Bishop of Kyushu, 
Japan, in a sermon at St. Paul's 
Cathedral : "It is now possible for 
Japan to place herself with her army 



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and her strong fleet, at the head of 
the nations of the Far East and 
sweep out, once for all, the nations 
of the west that have exploited the 
Far East in their own interest. Never 
before has a nation been so tempted 
as Japan-" 

From the well known publication, 
The World's Work, of Jan., 1917, 
page 314, I chpped this dreadful and 
awful warning to the United States : 
"The Japanese navy since the 
Chinese-Japanese war has been in- 
creased tremendously and now ranks 
among the first five navies of the 
world. Americans, who have lived 
in Japan, declare that it is an open 
secret that the latter is preparing for 
war with America. No longer does 
Japan regard the United States as 
her traditional friend. Her press is 
continually urging extreme measures 
against America." 

A recent issue of Das Deutsche 
Blatt published in Frankfort-on- 
Main, Germany, says: "The yellow 
dwarf, the Jap as the Americans call 
him, with his ever grinning mask, is 
already beginning to put on his 
claws for the beautiful United States. 
The west coast of America is the most 
ardent of his desires and it will not 
be long before San Francisco is a 
Japanese city. Japan is preparing 
for a great war. Japan is constantly 
manufacturing arms and ammunition 
and is creating its own stores of arms 
and ammunition, sufficient even for 
the most terrible war." 

United States Senator James D. 
Phelan is crying out this most unmis- 
takable warning: "Japan has given 
fair notice by menace and threat. 
Strength is a nation's only im- 
munity." 



These words are published in the 
Review of Revieivs of April, 1917, by 
Payson J. Treat, Professor of His- 
tory in Stanford University: "The 
United States will become involved in 
a war with Japan. Because of the 
desire to seize the Phillipines, Hawaii 
and even the Pacific coast." 

Says our recalled ambassador, 
James W. Gerald: "All during the 
winter Germany from the highest 
down tried to impress me with the 
great danger which they said threat- 
ened America from Japan." 

Said Evangelist E. L. Cardey in 
the presence of a congregation at St. 
James Avenue and Berkeley Street, 
Boston, Mass. : "Soon we shall see 
the armies of the Orient in battle 
array against these of the Occident. 
Then Armageddon will be on." 

You could have seen the following 
words published in the Watchman of 
March, 1915 : "War with Japan sure. 
War between the United States and 
Japan will follow the European," 

The following words were clipped 
from the Bostoyi Journal, July 16, 
1917: "Armies of East and West will 
battle. In spite of the billions of 
dollars and millions of lives which the 
world has already fed to the war god, 
the climax has not been reached. 
There are mutterings of a greater, a 
bloodier, a more terrible war. It will 
follow fast on the heels of the present 
conflict." 

Says George Lauferti in his new 
book entitled United States and the 
Next War: "A Japanese- American 
war is logically the next great con- 
flict." 

The writer could give the testimony 
of dozens more that Japan will surely 
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33 



States. This fact is plainly shown 
by the prophecies and there is no 
escape from it. 

Prov. 6: SA, 35. — "For jealousy is 
the rage of a man, therefore he will 
not spare in the days of vengeance. 
He will not regard any ransom : 
neither will he rest content, though 
thou givest many gifts." Japan 
feels deeply grieved and considers her 
gods gravely insulted when foreign 
missionaries speak of the Japanese 
as a heathen people. With 13,000,000 
swift and eager soldiers, with food 
and equipment for six solid years and 
with an alliance by which China adds 
60,000,000 fighting men, Japan can 
furnish an army almost as large as 
the whole population of the United 
States. 

Mark well I say, these are the false 
prophets who see the United States 
and Japan at war. Matt. 7: 15. — 
"Beware of false prophets." 

The United States in point of fact 
will never see any more war after this 
war with Germany. She will escape 
the second act of this great war 
drama as we have shown. Then 
Japan with 100,000,000 swift, hardy, 
eager soldiers at her command will 
declare war against the United 
States. But no war will take place 
the United States will win the con- 
flict without even firing a gun or de- 
stroying a single human life. 

In meekness, humility, in fullness 
of love for all nations of the earth our 
country will come off conqueror. 
Mark well what I tell you. The Un- 
ited States is to have dominion over 
all the earth and this will come to her 
as naturally and easily {Matt. 21: 23) 
as a father's estate falls to a son who 
is in a far country. 



Matt. 5: 5. — "Blessed are the meek: 
for they shall inherit the earth." 

Daniel 7: 23, 57.— "Thus he said, 
The fourth beast shall be the fourth 
kingdom upon earth * * * and the 
kingdom and dominion and the great- 
ness of the kingdom under the whole 
heaven, shall be given to the people of 
the saints of the Most High, whose 
kingdom is an everlasting kingdom 
and all dominion shall serve and 
obey him." 

Japan will declare war upon the 
United States and will be caught in 
a trap of their own making, a terrible 
pestilence. 

Rev. 20: 2, 9. — "And the dragon 
that old serpent * * * went up on 
the breadth of the earth and com- 
passed the camp of the saints about, 
and the beloved city: and fire came 
down from God out of heaven and 
devoured them." 

Ezek. 28: 23. — "For I will send into 
her pestilence. 

Hab. S: 5. — "Before him went the 
pestilence." 



SAINTS MOST HIGH. 



CHAPTER XII. 



Matt. 5: IS. — "One jot or one tittle 
shall in no wise pass from the law, 
till all be fulfilled." 

When I read this passage of scrip- 
ture sadness filled my heart for the 
following prophecy about the United 
States began to loom before my eyes. 

Isaiah 18: 1, 5.— "Woe to the land 
shadowing with wings * * * All ye 
inhabitants of the world and dwellers 
on the earth, see ye, when he lifteth 
up an ensign." 

Daniel 7: 7, 11. — "And behold a 



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fourth beast strong exceedingly * * * 
And I beheld, even till the beast was 
slain, and his body destroyed, and 
given to the burning flame," 

Rev. .4; 7. — "And the fourth beast 
was like a flying eagle." 

When I came to look upon the en- 
sign of the United States, I saw the 
eagle of prophecy. My eyes filled 
with tears when on a silver quarter 
I found the eagle, for this little piece 
of money even brought the unmis- 
takable symbol of this country of 
mine as did cartoon, newspaper and 
advertisement everywhere. 

Deep down in my heart I said : 
"God's word cannot fail. This beloved 
land which I love is doomed and will 
be wiped from the face of the earth." 

Then I found in a Japanese news- 
paper called Chugat Chimpo the 
words : "Our strength will permit the 
realization of the desire, so long 
cherished, of establishing ourselves 
on the western coast of America." 
Then before my mind arose a picture 
of the 13,000,000 soldiers of Japan 
increased by the Chinese alliance to 
60,000,000 men, swift, hardy, equip- 
ped for fighting. And I seemed to 
hear the ancient prophecy: "Woe to 
the land shadowing with wings." 

Then I began to say deep down ' 
my heart: "There is no God, if the 
Being we call by that name will per- 
mit our beautiful country, the land 
of the free and the home of the brave, 
to become a second Korea in the 
ruthless hands of Japan. For the 
United States is the nation given by 
God into the hands of the sons and 
daughters of toil. The ballot box is 
the instrument of their authority- 
This class of our citizens out-vote by 
a ten fold majority the few rich 



vipers to whom President Wilson re- 
fers in his last message to Congress 
as men without conscience or love of 
country. In light of this considera- 
tion I began to realize that we are 
God's chosen people, that our free 
schools and churches and other in- 
stitutions are safe and secure. Luke 
6: 20. — "Blessed are ye poor: for 
yours is the kingdom of God," 

What greater kingdom of God do 
you want on earth than that which is 
already in the hands of the sons and 
daughters of work. "The word 
kingdom," says Webster, "means the 
sphere in which one is king or has 
control." 

The United States forms a repub- 
lic in which every voter is monarch. 
And may the time soon come when 
our Christian mothers may give 
orders to our Congressmen and say: 
"If you do not want to lose your job, 
we command you to drive this damn- 
able curse of the rum saloon out of 
the United States," God hasten the 
day when the common people may 
come to realize that the Almighty has 
placed in their hands this sovereign 
power of the republic and that they 
may demand a square deal and the 
end of our labor troubles, at the seat 
of government and from the legis- 
lators of our land where the people's 
will is law. 

Considerations like these together 
with the prophecies in God's Holy 
Bible that our country will be saved 
and not destroyed {Daniel 7: 27) 
have greatly uplifted my heart and 
I have perfect faith that God will 
keep his word. 

But why do I believe that the pro- 
phecy of Daniel 7: 7, 11 and others 
like it will not seal the fate of the 



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35 



United. "And behold a fourth beast 
strong exceedinjjfly * * * And I be- 
held, even till the beast was slain and 
his body destroyed and given to the 
burning flame." 

To justify my faith that the United 
States will not be destroyed I am 
going back again to the prophecy 
about the eagle's wings to be plucked 
from the British Lion. 

Daniel 7: U declares that a man's 
heart is to be given to the creature 
having the eagle wings and this refers 
to the nation to which we belong, to 
the United States. "The lion had 
eagle's wings : I beheld till the wing? 
thereof were plucked and a man's 
heart was given to it" Now we know 
perfectly well that the eagle's wings 
of the United States were plucked 
from the British lion and that the 
symbol of the wings represents our 
form of government and it can be 
shown that the man's heart which 
was promised is still to be found 
within the wings. 

William J. Bryan showed himself 
a master judge of human hearts and 
he deserves a good deal of credit in 
giving to the United States a certain 
Woodrow Wilson to be the pilot of 
our ship of state through the most 
terrible war-storm which history has 
yet known. 

When President Wilson asked 
Charles E. Hughes to come and help 
him carry the burden of this gigantic 
war Mr, Hughes did not say as it 
would seem natural for a defeated 
Presidential candidate to say: "No, 
I guess not, the people wanted you 
and now you can carry your own 
burden." 

Hughes, on the contrary, like a 
giant-hearted Christian, rose above 



all political feelings and sent in- 
stantly to the nation's chief, saying: 
"I will come at once." We call him 
in an hour like this, "A Saint of the 
Most High." 

Upon the heart of our great Ex- 
President, William H. Taft, a very 
ugly scar had been left by the vote of 
an ungrateful people but like colossal 
Samson he rose to the task and has 
done a mighty bit of hard work to 
help win the war and our land is 
proud of "Bill" Taft as the peer of 
human hearts. 

No one need ask whether Ex-Presi- 
dent Roosevelt is doing more than 
his share to help win this dreadful 
war. Giving as he has four sons and 
1 son-in-law to the horrible trenches 
md with one of his beautiful boys 
ilready a living sacrifice, God knows 
that "Teddy" Roosevelt, as we ^all 
him, carries within him that great 
heart which God says shall save our 
American homes and in the end win 
this war for World Democracy. 

Does not the Bible say: "By their 
fruits ye shall know them?" 

One more colossal human heart 
should be remembered at this time, 
Samuel Gompers, President of the 
United States Federation of Labor. 
He too is a man of a Christian spirit 
such as we find deeply rooted in every 
true American son of toil- To Gom- 
pers with his giant heart, the ranks 
of labor are looking with great con- 
fidence for guidance and light. The 
moment President Wilson cried out: 
"To arms, we must declare war," 
Samuel Gompers taking in one hand 
the American flag and pointing with 
the other to the plow, the anvil, the 
spindle and the loom cried out : "Un- 
ited we stand, divided we fall." 



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Luke 11: 17. — "Every kingdom di- 
vided against itself is brought to des- 
olation ; and a house divided against 
a house falleth." 

At the very heart of the whole sit- 
uation do we find that born leader of 
all living human hearts, President 
Woodrow Wilson. When the war is 
over he will be numbered in a God- 
given "Trinity" of American "Sav- 
iours" — Washington, Lincoln and 
Wilson. 

It has been a great source of pleas- 
ure for the Kaiser to gather around 
him his royal family and his military 
officers with their gold lace decora- 
tions. 

Daniel S: 23. — "And in the latter 
time of their kingdom, when the 
transgressors are come to the full, a 
king of fierce countenance and under- 
standing dark sentences, shall stand 
up." 

The Kaiser may have read to such 
a family council: Daniel 7: 6. — "And 
lo, a leopard which had upon the 
back of it four wings of a fowl; the 
beast had also four heads ; and domin- 
ion was given it." The Kaiser may 
then have pointed to the following 
prophecy, saying: "See, Germany 
cannot fail to win this great world 
war for God has said that all would 
be fulfilled. Matt. 5: i5.— "One jot 
or one tittle shall in no wise pass 
from the law till all be fulfilled-" 

The Kaiser would then naturally 
read the prophecy about the United 
States saying: "Look, Germany is 
going to wipe this United States from 
the face of the earth." 

Daniel 7: 7, 11.— "And behold a 
fourth beast, strong exceedingly * * 
and I beheld even till the beast was 



slain, and his body destroyed and 
given to the burning flame." 

Rev. ^: 7.— "And the fourth beast 
was like a flying eagle." 

Now, doubtless, the Kaiser has the 
gift of understanding dark sentences 
and of interpreting Bible prophecies. 
If it is the true method to take a sen- 
tence by itself and to go no further, 
the Kaiser would seem to be correct 
in his conclusion that the United 
States is doomed without question 
and without any redress. This 
method of creating humanity and of 
fashioning human history on God's 
part would be like building a mam- 
moth hotel with no fire escapes or 
sending out an ocean liner without a 
life boat. 

Had the Kaiser looked at the end 
of the seventh chapter of Daniel's 
prophecy he would have seen that es- 
cape was to come for the United 
States by a fire escape of which the 
German monarch would have and 
could have no understanding. How 
can you expect a man who has only 
the heart of a beast or of a viper to 
understand what God means when he 
says that the eagle or the United 
States as we understand the prophecy 
will be given the heart of a man. 

Man is made according to Scripture 
(Gen. 5:1) not in the image of the 
beast or of any creeping thing but 
after God's own image and in his own 
likeness. The United States in a 
word will escape destruction in this 
coming struggle between Japan and 
the Kaiser and the means of escape 
will be this God-given Christian 
heart. 

Our nation will say to the mon- 
archies of Europe: "If you propose 
to use the Angel of God's Mercy, the 



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37 



Pope, for a cat's paw and Japan, the 
honest and fraternal nation, for a 
scape-poat in order to steal Russia, 
you can depend upon it that the Un- 
ited States will not go back on the 
word of their Chief Magistrate" 

"Wilson declared and we stand by 
his words : 'We entered this war for 
no indemnity or any new lands but 
to make the earth a decent place to 
live in ;' and if you Christian nations 
are going to play this out and out 
game of steal and in that way inflame 
Japan into another greater war, we 
are going to have nothing to do with 
the wicked job." 

Then will be fulfilled the prophecy 
(Daniel 12: 10) : "But the wicked 
shall do wickedly: and none of the 
wicked shall understand ; but the wise 
shall understand." 

Then shall be manifested the Saints 
of the Most High. We are a nation 
of people of all nationalities, religious 
beliefs, political parties and secret, 
fraternal organizations, united into 
one grand beauteous scene. And 
you will see this people all pointing to 
the stars of Old Glory and they will 
cry with loud voices : "Let us all trust 
in the God of righteousness, the God 
that loves to see his children enjoy 
glorious liberty." 

Romans 8: 21. — "The glorious lib- 
erty of the children of God." He is 
a God also that loves to see fair play, 
justice and equality. 

Prov. 21: 3. — "To do justice is 
more acceptable to the Lord than 
sacrifice. But by an equality, that 
now at this time * * * that there 
may be equality." And besides all 
this, He is a God who desires to see 
fraternity among all kingdoms, na- 
tions and people, whether they are 



living under the stars of Old Glory 
or in any other part of the earth. 

Hch. 13: 1 — "Let brotherly love 
continue." 

The United States will be the wise 
nation whose purpose is to turn her 
people to that great and heavenly God 
of Righteousness who dwells among 
the stars. For the stars on Old 
Glory symbolize justice to all and 
special privilege to none. Have you 
not read in the Bible where it says 
{Dnnirl 12: 3) : "They that be wise 
shall shine as the brightness of the 
firmament; and they that turn many 
to righteousness as the stars forever 
and ever." 

When our great souled forefathers 
took the fate of this new nation in 
their hands and signed "The Declara- 
tion of Independence" they virtually 
declared : "This shall be a government 
of the people, by the people and for 
the people. Under the stars of Old 
Glory no one nationality or religious 
creed or class of people shall have 
undue advantage; but this shall be a 
cfovernment of justice to all and spec- 
ial privilege to none." 

And when the first president of 
this Republic went to take his oath 
of office it was laid upon him with his 
right hand on the Holy Bible to swear 
'^o carry on the administration of the 
United States according to the teach- 
ing of the Sacred Book. 

It was perfectly clear to them all 
that the Bible inculcates Liberty, 
Equality and Fraternity to one and 
all whether they be individuals or 
kingdoms. Fair play and a square 
deal was to be the nation's watch- 
word from that day forward. 

It was made clear to that first 
president as it was intended to be 



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said to every one of his successors : 
"Every voter of this country has his 
eye upon you to see that you keep the 
Ship of State on the God-directed 
course. You are to live up to your 
oath of office which calls for justice 
to all and special privilege to none." 

But we may thank heaven that the 
same God was looking down upon 
the birth of this nation who saw the 
wicked people of Ninevah turning 
from their evil ways and forgave and 
saved them. 

Jonah 3: 10 — "And God saw their 
works, that they turned from their 
evil way: and God repented of the 
evil that he said he would do to them 
and he did it not." 

And that same God will behold the 
United States turning from the evil 
ways which this book of mine has so 
clearly pointed out. And the Un- 
ited States will be forgiven and that 
which the Almighty has said he would 
do, he will do it not. 

Then it will come to pass that the 
prophecy of the eleventh verse of the 
seventh chapter of Daniel will not be 
fulfilled. Daniel 7: 11.— "1 beheld, 
even till the beast was slain, and his 
body destroyed, and given to the burn- 
ing flame." 

But the rest of the beasts, England, 
Russia and Germany will pass on and 
they will fall into a trap set by Japan 
and their dominion will be taken from 
them. 

Daniel 7: 12. — As concerning the 
rest of the beasts, they had their 
dominion taken away: yet their 
lives were prolonged for a season and 
a time." 



CAPITAL VERSUS LABOR. 



CHAPTER XIIL 



As long ago as the days of ancient 
Babylon the government and people 
as a whole were constantly engaged 
in a two-fold conflict — on the one 
hand against the money-trust — on the 
other against the labor trust. In this 
struggle Babylon had to succumb and 
was soon sleeping in dust and ruin. 

The great empire of Rome as well 
as the mighty dominion of Greece met 
the same dissension and suffered the 
same fate. 

Mark 3: 2U. — "If a kingdom be di- 
vided against itself, that kingdom 
cannot stand." 

Today the United States govern- 
ment is up against the same problem 
of capital and labor which beset 
Babylon, Rome and Greece. But 
Christ spoke a Bible prophecy in 
form of a parable which is being 
fulfilled by President Wilson that 
faithful steward of the nation's in- 
terest who has gathered about him a 
multitude of fellow helpers for such 
a time as this. 

Matt. 13: 50.— "And in the time of 
harvest I will say to the reapers. 
Gather ye together first the tares and 
bind them in bundles to burn them: 
but gather the wheat into my barns." 
(Matt. 13: 3 A) Jesus thus spoke in 
the form of a parable what proves 
to be more than parable. 

Wheat is one of the great essen- 
tials of human life. Railroads, tele- 
phones, telegraph systems, steam 
boat lines and other public utilities 
are in a great sense no less an essen- 
tial of a nation's and government's 



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39 



life than is bread for individual exist- 
ence. 

President Wilson's policy in the 
matter of government control in the 
use of these public necessities should 
meet with universal commendation. 
He has certainly done the right thing, 
at the right time and in the right 
way. No good farmer will leave his 
farming tools to lie about exposed to 
wind and weather. And is it not 
the only wise and proper course in 
stormy conditions like the present to 
put all these national utilities into 
the government barn of public safety 
rather than to leave them exposed to 
the wind and weather of human na- 
ture, to the wintry frost and cold o' 
human self interest and selfishness .is 
we find it in common life. 

The prophecy reads that the tares 
are to be gathered and bound in 
bundles and burned. The tares of to- 
day in our public life are nothing less 
than the watered stocks and bonds, 
the fictitious values which our rich 
thieves are employing to defraud our 
sons and daughters of toil out of 
their rightful share in the earnings 
and values which belong to them. 

Says the Pall Mall Gazette : "What- 
ever may be the outcome of the pres- 
ent trouble in the United States there 
is yet to come an awful struggle be- 
tween capital and labor. Working 
men understand full well that they 
are in the future expected to earn 
dividends for hundreds of millions 
of watered stocks with which present 
trusts have been inflated." 

Said the Vice President of the Un- 
ited States, Mr. Marshall, in his Jef- 
ferson Day address : "The belief that 
there is an unequal distribution of 
wealth in this country has been sup- 



plemented by the belief that much 
of it has been obtained through spec- 
ial privilege, that it did not come by 
labor, skill, industry, barter, or trade, 
but through watered stocks and 
bonds, through corners on commod- 
ities, through corruption of legisla- 
tures, through the sale of impure 
foodstuffs, through wrecking rail- 
roads, through all the devices known 
to man whereby the law is not abro- 
gated but chloroformed." 

Mr. Marshall protested that he 
had said nothing new or revolution- 
ary, that men like E. H. Gary and 
Wayne MacVeagh have said the same 
things in stronger language. 

Pror. 28: 22. — "He that hasteth to 
be rich hath an evil eye, and consider- 
eth not that poverty shall come upon 
him." 

When the United States govern- 
ment told United States District At- 
torney George W. Anderson of Boston 
to investigate the soaring prices of 
commodities, after a conference with 
Attorney General Gregory he gave 
out this report: "Washington, D. C., 
Jan. 23, 1917. Price increases re- 
sulting from artificial and illegal 
combinations have been checked as a 
result of the government's investiga- 
tion of soaring prices for commod- 
ities." 

Prov. 22: 22. — "Rob not the poor, 
because he is poor: neither oppress 
the afflicted." 

The eminent author, Asa Oscar Tait, 
in his world renowned book. Heralds 
of the Morning, says : "All are famil- 
iar with the fact that these large ag- 
gregations of capital crush out the 
small independent dealers, and hold 
the prices of commodities and the 
general interests of business within 



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BIBLE PROPHECIES. 



their iron grasp. It would be a 
wearisome as well as useless task to 
try to present anything like a tithe of 
the great mass of evidence that 
might be given in regard to the 
'heaping' together of treasure. Every- 
one knows that the combines of 
wealth meet us at the very threshold 
of life, and follow us all the journey 
through, ask a tribute at every step 
on the various necessary things of 
daily use until finally the portals of 
the tomb are reached, and even there 
arc we met by the agent of the un- 
dertakers' association who collects 
his fee before our mortal remains are 
allowed to be laid at rest. Meet men 
anywhere, and their theme is 'making 
money.' Money must be had at all 
hazards- If it cannot be obtained 
honestly, it must be gained in some 
other way." 

Said Ex-Pr^esident Taft in a public 
address : "One of the results of the 
conditions and evils which I have 
been describing has been the concen- 
tration of enormous wealth in the 
hands of few men." 

In the Foriun is an article written 
by the noted Thomas G. Sherman, en- 
titled: ''The Owners of the United 
States." In this article he brings out 
the fact that so vast and gigantic 
have become the heaps of wealth in 
the hands of a few persons, that a 
mere handful of capitalists own more 
than one-half of the wealth of the 
United States. 

"The freest government (said 
the great and wise Daniel Webster) 
"cannot long endure when the ten- 
dency of the law is to create a rapid 
accumulation of property in the 
hands of a few, and to render the 
masses poor and dependent." 



Isaiah 5: 8, 9. — "Woe unto them 
that join house to house, that lay 
field to field, till there be no more 
room, that they may be placed alone 
in the midst of the earth. In mine 
ears said the Lord of hosts, of a truth 
many houses shall be desolate, even 
great and fair, without inhabitant. 
Therefore hell hath enlarged herself 
and opened her mouth without meas- 
ure : and their glory, and their mul- 
titude, and their pomp and he that re- 
joiceth shall descend into it." 

Said the Advent Christian Mes- 
senger: "The labor question is fast 
coming to the front as one of gigan- 
tic proportions. A clash must come 
sooner or later between capital and 
labor that will be terrible in its re- 
sults." 

A short time ago the eminent 
Heyiry Van Dyke said at the com- 
mencement of Harvard University: 
"People say that another revolution 
is coming in our age and our own 
country. It is possible. There are 
signs of it. There has been a tre- 
mendous increase of luxury among 
the rich in the present generation. 
There has been a great increase of 
suff"ering among the poor in certain 
sections of the country." 

Hon. Roger Q. Mills, United States 
Senator from Texas, said in a speech 
in the United States Senate: "We 
have been told that concentrated 
money is equally as powerful for evil 
as concentrated swords and bayonets, 
and that liberty must leave the land 
where either tyrant rules. We are 
trampling today all these admonitions 
under our feet. Our ship is driving 
upon the rocks ; and unless we seize 
the helm and change its course, the 
historian will emerge from the dark- 



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41 



ness to write the melancholy pages 
of the decline and fall of the great 
American Republic." 

A reef like that which lay before 
France in the French Revolution lies 
before America. Just in time has 
President Wilson turned the wheel 
and our ship of state is saved in the 
nick of time. 

Shakespeare in Hamlet gives us 
some good advice. 
"Find out the cause of this effect, 
Or rather say, the cause of this de- 
fect, 
For this effect defective comes by 
cause." 
Just this needs to be done in our 
governmental machinery. And what 
you would do for your factory engine 
or even your sewing machine. Presi- 
dent Wilson, looking after the cause 
of our present labor difficulty, has 
done in the appointment of "An in- 
dustrial commission to investigate 
this serious disturbance between cap- 
ital and labor." This is what they 
brought in for their report (1915) : 
"Unjust distribution of wealth and 
income and denial of justice in the 
creation, in the adjudication, and in 
the administration of law. The crux 
of the question is. Have the worker? 
received a fair share of the enor- 
mous increase in wealth which has 
taken place in this country during 
the period as a result largely of their 
labors? The answer is emphatically, 
"No." 

Prophecy is not wanting in Scrip- 
ture that our country would hit upon 
that very reef. 

James, chap. 5. — "Go to now, ye 
rich men, weep and howl for your 
miseries that shall come upon you. 
Your gold and silver shall be a wit- 



ness against you. Ye have heaped 
treasure together for the last days. 
Behold the hire of the laborers who 
have reaped down your fields, which 
is of you kept back by fraud." 

Jer. 22: 13, i^.— "Woe unto him 
that buildeth his house by unright- 
eousness and his chambers by wrong ; 
that useth his neighbor's service 
without wages and giveth him not for 
his work. He shall be buried with 
the burial of an ass." 

Once more we hear those memor- 
able words of the President in his 
message to Congress : "The profiteer- 
ing that can not be got at by the re- 
straints of conscience and love of 
country can be got at by taxation." 

I believe that while this war is 
going on the government should levy 
on the income of the rich men and 
women of our country for every dol- 
lar over and above their living ex- 
penses and that the taxation of the 
poor man and his family should be 
made as light as possible. 

My conviction is based on the fact 
that we are drafting the poor man's 
bo3^ to win the war; we are calling 
even the last son of many a widowed 
mother. What is gold and silver in 
value when measured by the life 
blood of our best and bravest sons? 

To the labor unions it must be 
said : "You have fought a good battle 
against the rich, money-mad and 
money crazy thieves of our American 
life but in reality your conflict has 
but just begun. There are not want- 
ing in your own union garden human 
and living tares which must be taken 
care of before your true mission can 
be accomplished. All honor and re- 
spect to the foreigner who learns to 
love his adopted country, to respect 



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BIBLE PROPHECIES. 



her laws and reverence her flag, ai.d 
in good faith becomes a union man. 
But what shall we say of those who 
coming from the swill pails and ash 
barrels of the old country act like 
birds of prey and not like honest 
working men? These are the very 
loudest mouthed abusers of our in- 
stitutions as they are usually the big- 
gest kickers at our boarding houses 
and even our best hotels even though 
they never knew at home how a 
square meal tasted. 

There are some union men of this 
class who ought to be gagged and 
handcuffed and shackled until they 
can be taught American ideas and 
principles. 

I hold that the labor condition in 
the United States is by far the best 
on earth. The laboring man has, as 
I have already shown, free schools, 
free churches, free hospitals, free 
play-ground — freedom everywhere 
for his children. He is himself a 
sovereign king of the grandest gov- 
ernment on earth as Ralph Waldo 
Emerson once said: "Great America 
where every citizen is king." 

And over every union man, floats 
the Stars and Stripes. No citizen of 
this counti:y, whether a member of 
a labor union or not can listen to an 
address on the Stars and Stripes, like 
the one Miss Booth, the eloquent and 
consecrated leader of the Salvation 
Army is wont to give, without pro- 
found emotion. Every American 
under the spell of such patriotism 
must thrill with honor, reverence and 
affection, not so much for the banner 
itself, which has cost our fathers so 
much sacrifice and bloodshed as for 
the principles of liberty, equality and 
fraternity which it so gloriously rep- 



resents. No labor union, business 
corporation or financial combination 
or other federation of men ought 
under shelter of this flag to suffer 
themselves to become servants of any 
other rule except the Golden Rule. 
The moment any combination of cit- 
izens does such a wrong and refuses 
to do unto others as its members 
would be done by, a sword is drawn 
between their children and the free 
schools, the free churches and the 
free government that God has given 
to us and which Old Glory stands for. 

The labor unions of America are 
as yet only in ^ their infancy ; their 
life work has but just begun- You 
might compare the labor situation to 
a fine-spun thread or cable which is 
in a tangle like a child's shoe string, 
tied in a thousand hard and compli- 
cated knots which must be unsnarled 
before peace and good will on earth 
can reign between one laborer and an- 
other for we are all workers in the 
world or ought to be. 

The Christ plainly pointed out the 
goal which every labor union should 
set for itself. The key to the situa- 
tion of the workman and his em- 
ployer is given to us in the 20th 
chapter of Matthew. 

No labor union can meet with suc- 
cess until every agreement made and 
sanctioned by the organization is kept 
to the letter and the fulfillment of 
the same guaranteed (Matt. 20: 2, 
13). No corporation or individual 
can escape labor trouble until there 
is on their part a willingness to give 
the hired man or woman a good, 
comfortable and living wage and 
more than that — to give what is 
"right." (Matt. 20:4). And "what- 
soever is right" covers not only equal- 



CAPITAL VERSUS LABOR. 



43 



ity of wages but also equality in the 
number of hours of employment. 

No government, corporation, con- 
tractor or individual is making the 
effort to live anything like a Chris- 
tian till all laborers are paid in ? 
equal manner, each receiving the 
same amountin wages (Matt. 20: 10). 

The great hearted Lincoln put the 
matter in the just and right way 
when he said : "That to secure tc 
each laborer the whole product of his 
labor or as nearly as possible is a 
worthy object of any good govern- 
ment." 

There is a ten-fold greater injus- 
tice in the inequality of wages paid 
to different classes of wage earner? 
than is shown any where else in the 
dispute between capital and labor. 
And when it comes to the number of 
hours a laborer toils, we have thous- 
ands of men and women of all classes 
who have never known the meaning 
of a day's work. 

God Bless Massachusetts for her 
Christian legislation that drives both 
these rich and hobo drones out of 
their hive and makes it a criminal 
offense for them not to do their share 
of work and not to bear their share of 
the labor burden of life. 

On the other hand there are classes 
of men who go to their offices at nine 
or ten in the morning and stop work 
at two or three in the afternoon- 
Still others work six, eight, ten or 
even twelve hours a day as the case 
may be. And when it comes to the 
hard-working farmer and his wife 
the world does not seem to care if 
they toil sixteen hours a day. And 
we ought not to forget that our drug 
stores, barber shops and like public 
conveniences are in many cases kept 
open both night and day. 



The time will come when there will 
be an equal distribution of wages to 
all who toil and we all are, or should 
be, workers in some vocation. In- 
deed the time is not far distant when 
the world will strive to equalize the 
hours of labor among all classes. 

Some political economists assert 
that in times of peace, the welfare 
of the country can be well cared for 
with a labor schedule of three hours 
a day. 

I myself predict that you will soon 
find five hours making a day's work, 
five days constituting a week's work 
and five dollars a day or more the es- 
tablished wage. And I also predict 
that the time is not far away when 
it will be an impossibility and an 
unheard of thing to find as you can 
today a beef trust which shows a 
profit of $140,000,000 in three years 
and pays its president $200,000 a 
year salary, the vice president $100,- 
000 for his services and the stock- 
holders enormous dividends on eighty 
millions of watered stock that rep- 
resents no more honest value than 
does a scrap of paper. 

The United States will institute 
within the next few years a house 
cleaning season. As this sort of work 
always does, a good deal of inconven- 
ience will be caused to a good many 
people. But the job has been put off 
too long already and the war will 
force us to undertake the task how- 
ever unwelcome. Let us be patient, 
submissive and uncomplaining and 
let us co-operate with our faithful 
head-servant. President Wilson, ai 
his vast multitude of subordinates in 
doing this gigantic job as it ought to 
be done. 



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BIBLE PROPHECIES. 



OUR KINGDOM DIVIDED. 



CHAPTER XIV. 



Matt. 12: 25. — "Every kingdom di- 
vided against itself is brought to des- 
olation; and every city or house di- 
vided against itself shall not stand." 
OUR HOMES. 

Dr. E. B. Lowry in his new book 
entitled Herself, on page 71 says : "It 
has been estimated that only about 
five per cent, of all marriages are 
successful." 

The noted author, Bernarr Mac- 
fadden in his new book, Manhood and 
Marriacje, page 40 says: "Some au- 
thorities declare that ninety-five per 
cent, of all marriages are unsuccess- 
ful." 

Says Dr. R. J. Lambert in his new 
book, Himself, page 101 : "It has 
been estimated that only about five 
per cent, of the marriages in the 
world prove happy." 

Modern science has discovered who 
is to blame and why it is that ninety- 
five per cent, of the marriages of the 
world prove unhappy. But the writer 
of this book which you are reading, 
cannot leave the field of prophecy but 
can only refer you to our modern 
works on medical science if you de 
sire to locate the blame for the exist- 
ing proportion of divided homes. 
EVERY CITY DIVIDED. 

The noted author, Asa Oscar 
Tait, in his new book, Heralds of 
the Morning, gives facts and figures 
to show that ninety-five per cent, of 
our commodities of "life are in the 
hands of the money trusts. 

Everyone of my readers well 
knows that ninety-five per cent, of 
the sons of toil belong to labor ur 



ions and are now in battle array 
against the money trusts. But Pres- 
dent Wilson has taken away the bone 
of contention and you will shortly see 
the matters of dispute between capi- 
tal and labor under adjustment by 
the government with justice to both 
labor and capital. 

OUR KINGDOM DIVIDED. 

Who can fail to say that we are a 
kingdom divided among ourselves — 
the solid North against the solid 
South with the solid South now in 
the government saddle. 

I have voted the Republican ticket 
all my life and my father was a Union 
soldier in the Civil War. And there- 
fore what I am about to write, will 
come from my feeling of what is just 
and right rather than from any senti- 
ment toward any political party or 
class of people. 

Whenever or wherever you find in- 
dividuals, homes, cities or kingdoms 
divided, you ought to carefully look 
at the facts of the case and measure 
the question with the golden rule. If 
you do this, you cannot long fail to 
reach a just decision. 

I believe that the preservation of 
the Union and the freeing of the 
slaves was good and right. But we 
of the North went to war with the 
South not to free the slaves but to 
save the Union. The issuing of the 
Emancipation Proclamation was no 
less a literal stealing of the slaves 
than it would be for me to walk into 
a farmer's barn and take a horse or 
cow without his consent or to carry 
way his furniture from his house 
without any payment therefor. 

The famous author, Miss Ida ¥ 
Tarbell, has told the truth in her 
Life of Lincoln, page 95, when she 



OUR KINGDOM DIVIDED. 



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says: "Throughout his entire politi- 
ical life Lincoln has disclaimed any 
desire to meddle with slavery in the 
states where the constitution recog- 
nized it. He had undertaken the war 
not to free men but to preserve the 
Union." 

What the North should have done 
at the close of the Civil War, was to 
have paid for those slaves at the mar- 
ket price. If Lincoln had lived to 
finish his work there is no question in 
my mind but what the South would 
have been paid for millions of dollars' 
worth of stolen property. 

"It is doubtful," says Miss Tarbell, 
"If Lincoln in all his political career 
ever had a measure more at heart 
than his scheme for compensated 
emancipation." Isaac Arnold, who 
knew him well, says that rarely, if 
ever, was he known to manifest such 
solicitude as over this measure." — 
Life of Lincoln, page 111. 

It is a common belief among the 
second generation of the North that 
the South by their secession were 
traitors. But the truth is they were 
not traitors in any sense of the word. 
They believed as many of the North 
believed that they had a perfect 
right, a constitutional right, and a 
sovereign right to secede. 

I take the following from one of 
our high school text books of history, 
one used now in the instruction of 
our Northern boys and girls : says the 
Americayi History, hy Albert B. Hart, 
page 4C8. — "The constitutionality of 
secession was accepted by most south- 
ern public men, and by some in the 
North. Once admit that the states 
were sovereign and the constitution 
only a compact among them, and any 
state was undoubtedly entitled to 



leave the Union when it felt dis- 
affected." 

"We," said Lincoln, "on our side, 
are praying God to give us victory, 
because we believe we are right; but 
those on the other side pray Him too 
for victory, believing they are right." 
— Life of Lincoln, page 124, by Ida 
M. Tarbell. 

We can and often do forgive a thief 
when he steals dollars and cents. But 
how can we forgive and forget when 
any one brands us as traitors and 
keeps up continually such an accu- 
sation. The solid South is not likely 
to forgive and forget our attitude to- 
ward those brave boys in gray who 
died in the consciousness of duty 
faithfully performed. 

We can never see our kingdom once 
again united heart and soul, until we 
do to the South as we would be done 
by. 

The great selfish injustice by the 
North was in the pensioning the boys 
of the blue and not the gray, for when 
General Grant demanded uncondi- 
tional surrender and General Lee 
gave it, we then became a united fam- 
ily and by withholding from the boys 
in gray the same sort of a pension 
which we granted to the boys in blue 
we dealt a stinging blow of grave in- 
justice to the South for our Declara- 
tion of Independence reads, "Justice 
to all and special privileges to none." 
When we pension the blue and not 
the gray, we, of the North, turn our 
backs upon our own declaration and 
become traitors to our own republi- 
can form of government. 

Matt. 22: 55>.— "Thou shalt love thy 
neighbor as thyself." 

And we as a government did not 



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do by our boys in gray as we did by 
our boys in blue. 

Heh. 13: 1. — "Let brotherly love 
continue." 

// Peter 1: 7. — "And to brotherly 
kindness charity." 

The South has shown divine Christ- 
like charity towards our boys in blue 
and towards those that stole their 
legal, lawful property by paying their 
equal part of the taxes to pension the 
blue. But what has the North done 
to show their gratitude and appre- 
ciation towards the gray for such di- 
vine, Christlike charity? Nothing, 
Nothing, Nothing. 

When the North pensioned the 
blue and not the gray, in a moral 
sense they branded the boys in gray 
as unfit to associate with our boys in 
blue. In another sense they put a 
seal upon them that they were trai- 
tors which was the worst cut of all 
to our Southern people. And the 
South has resented it and will not 
and should not forgive the North for 
such a mean cowardly way of treat- 
ing their sons who fought so heroic- 
ally for what they believed was their 
moral, constitutional and sovereign 
rights. 

If you Southerners do forgive the 
North before they remove that seal 
of dishonor from your sons by giving 
them and their widows and needy 
children a most liberal pension, then 
you merit and fully deserve to be 
called ungrateful, inhuman and cow- 
ardly curs. And we of the North 
deserve that same epithet until we 
by equal sovereign taxation do for 
the sons of the gray what the South 
has done for the sons of the blue. 

How well do I remember the beau- 
tiful, appreciative kindly and loving 



words that I saw graven by parental 
love on a stately monument in a pub- 
lic square of Alexandria, Virginia: 
"They died in the consciousness of 
duty faithfully performed." 

If we of the North delay our action 
till our brave boys of the Southland 
have gone to their heavenly home on 
high, we shall commit a sin against 
the Holy Ghost for which there can be 
no forgiveness in this world or in the 
world to come. 

Matt. 12: 32. — "But whosoever 
speaketh against the Holy Ghost, it 
shall not be forgiven him, neither in 
this world, neither in the world to 
come." 

How can the gray forgive the blue 
when death has stopped their brave, 
sad hearts forever and their lips cold 
and silent in death can never speak 
again, for they will not be able then 
to say : "My Northern Brother, I 
wanted to forgive you during my liv- 
ing hours but you would not suffer 
me." 

Before our brave Southern and 
Northern boys come home from 
France it is to be hoped that every 
Northern Congressman whether Re- 
publican or Democrat, will be found 
supporting a bill to pension equally 
the blue and the gray. Then can we 
show to our sons and brothers who 
come back, not alone in words but in 
deeds, that our Kingdom is not di- 
vided but once more united. 



TIMES AND SEASONS. 



CHAPTER XV. 



Daniel 11: ^7.— "The end shall be 
at the time appointed." 

Daniel 8: 19. — "And he said. Be- 



TIMES AND SEASONS. 



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hold 1 will make thee know what 
shall be in the last end of the indig- 
nation : for at the time appointed the 
end shall be." 

Looking the prophecy squarely in 
the face you cannot help seeing how 
marvelous it is, for the declaration is 
made that the time of the end is ap- 
pointed. You naturally ask, The end 
of what? I answer: The end of 
peace and the beginning of a great 
world war, and the time when that 
mighty conflict shall end and the 
millennium shall begin. From the end 
of the millennium God has told us 
that the march of human progress 
and civilization will be onward and 
upward. And the world will grow 
better and better for time without 
end. 

Evhe^. 3: 21. — "Unto him be glory 
throughout all ages, world without 
end." 

Ecclcs. 1: 4.— "One generation 
passeth away, and another genera- 
tion Cometh: but the earth abideth 
forever." 

In the first chapter of this book I 
gave you proof that this world war 
began exactly on time — even to the 
very year, month and day when pro- 
phecy declared that the commence- 
ment of the vast struggle would take 
place. 

I now desire to call to the witness 
stand two or more who will show to 
us when the Millennium is to begin 
and when it will end. 

When the students of prophecy be- 
gan to set the time of Christ's Sec- 
ond Coming, some people were fool- 
ish enough to leave their crops in the 
ground for utter loss and ruin, others 
climbed to their house tops that they 
might see his arrival, others climbed 



trees on the predicted day. Were the 
Bible prophecies at fault or had these 
believers failed to read their Bibles 
as carefully as they should have done? 

L2ike 19: i 5.— "Occupy till I come" 
was the Divine injunction which was 
passed unheeded in many cases. 

On the other hand many Bible 
readers are accustomed to point to 
the book of Acts where it reads 
(Acts 1:7): "And h^ said unto them. 
It is not for you to know the times or 
the seasons, which the Father has put 
in his own power." 

These interpreters reason that 
God does not mean for any one to 
question about the beginning or the 
end of the war or the Millennium, or 
any of the Divine dispensations. 

Nothing can be farther from t^ 
truth than are such assertions. Christ 
was talking with these words to his 
Apostles who were Jews. They were 
disappointed because by his ascen- 
sion on high, he was about to leave 
them; and their kingdom, of whic' 
Jerusalem was to be the capitol, had 
not been restored to them as the Jews 
believed it would be at the coming of 
the prophesied Christ. The Apostles 
therefore asked Christ {Acts 1: 6) 
"Lord, wilt thou at this time restore 
again the kingdom to Israel." 

Christ then answered and said: 
"It is not for you. Apostles, to know 
the times and seasons for the restor- 
ing of a kingdom to Israel." In other 
words Christ said that the Kingdom 
of Israel was not to be restored to the 
Jews in the Apostles' day and they 
were to go about their work without 
concern as to the restoration. 

You cannot help seeing from the 
following prophecies that the time of 
the end was appointed. 



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Daniel 11: 27.— "None of the 
wicked shall understand; but the 
wise shall understand." 

And in the previous chapter, 
Dayiiel 12: iO.— "The end shall be at 
the time appointed." 

A good many can be found today 
who do understand the times and the 
seasons which God has appointed for 
coming events. Such a man for ex- 
ample is the Reverend George Shorey 
of Berwick, Maine. At that place, 
I was on my way home one after- 
noon when my day's work was done 
and I caught sight of Shorey speaking 
on the public square. I went over 
and listened to what he had to say. 

He used these prophetic words: 
"If this great and terrible war that 
the prophets of the Bible foretold 
does not come in 1914 this Bible is 
false; but it will come in 1914. God 
has so said and his word cannot fail." 
And the great and terrible world co 
flict did arrive as Shorey said that it 
would come. In the fall of our last 
Presidential election when the cry 
was heard echoing throughout the 
United States that President Wilson 
had kept us out of war, this same 
Berwick minister said to a gathering 
of people in his church : "Don't you 
believe that President Wilson has 
kept us out of the war, for God has 
appointed the time for the United 
States to enter this war, in the 
spring months of 1917. God has said 
that we shall drink of the bitter cup 
in the spring time of 1917." 

Shortly after the United States en- 
tered the war, Mr. Shorey again said 
to his people at Berwick: "God's 
word told you that this world war 
would begin in 1914 and the United 
States would enter the war in the 



springtime of 1917. Now I am going 
to tell you that God's word has told 
us not only the exact year, not only 
the very month but the exact time to 
a day that Palestine will pass out of 
the hands and power of the Turkish 
empire into the hands and power of 
the British empire and it will take 
place the 10th day of December, 
1917." And when the 10th day of 
December, 1917, came Palestine 
passed into the power of the British 
Empire. George Shorey was right 
and God's Holy Bible on which he 
relied proved correct and infallible. 
And this minister of the Gospel 
proved himself correct and his pre- 
diction was in exact agreement with 
Scripture. 

An interesting chart which sells 
for one dollar has just been placed 
upon the market by Rev. Butler Jack 
of St. Paul, Minn., which he will send 
postpaid for $1.00 to any address. 
This valuable chart shows the ap- 
pointed dates for all the special events 
from the beginning of this great and 
terrible conflict to the end of the 
Millennium. 

Rev. George Shorey of Berwick, 
Maine, has also placed a book on the 
market which shows how these times 
and seasons were discovered. Mr. 
Shorey's book can be obtained for 
35 cents postpaid. Luke 10: 7. — 
"And the laborer is worthy of his 
hire." 

The great war between Japan and 
her Allies against the so-called Chris- 
tian nations of Europe, Asia and 
Africa, will come to its end in 1928 
and Christ, the Saviour, will set up 
a world kingdom or rather a world 
democracy of all nations and tongues 
{Daniel 7: lU) in the year 1931. 



TIMES AND SEASONS. 



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Japan will win her war against the 
so-called Christian empires of the 
Old Country and Japan will come 
from that war victorious but wounded 
unto death, in other words fatally 
afflicted as a nation with various 
kinds of pestilence. 

The unburied dead of that swift, 
gigantic, terrible war (Rev. 20: 18) 
will be so vast in number that there 
will be a dreadful infection of pesti- 
lence resulting therefrom. 

Jer. 25: 33. — "And the slain of the 
Lord shall be at that day from one 
end of the earth even unto the other 
end of the earth: they shall not be 
lamented, neither gathered, nor 
buried: they shall be dung upon the 
ground." 

Japan will be compelled to go to 
and from her empire for supplies to 
support her armies and all the na- 
tions at war against her will be com- 
pelled to do the same. In conse- 
quence of this inter-communication, 
the pestilence will spread to all parts 
of Europe, Asia and Africa. The 
pitiful and heart-rending condition 
of the old world baffles description. 

These foreign nations burning up 
with fever and pestilence will appeal 
to America for help, food and medical 
aid. The heart of America will go 
out to them and prayer that God will 
open the way to their assistance will 
be incessant among our people. But 
all doors between America and for- 
eign countries will be closed and kept 
closed by force of arms lest the pesti- 
lence sweep over America as well as 
over the old world. 

From 1928 to 1931 there will be a 
period of sad and anxious waiting 
until the nations can get together for 
a World Peace Conference. And 



when this is held there will come to 
pass a world government which will 
never be destroyed or pass away 
{Daniel 7: IJ^). It will be indeed a 
new type and order of political rule. 
Rev. 21: 5.— "Behold I make all 
things new." 

This will be a government where 
the poor man will get a square deal 
and where law-breaking, money-crazy 
soulless thieves will, to use a common 
phrase, get it in the neck and their 
do-nothing and good-for-nothing chil- 
dren will be obliged to go to work. 

The Millennium, as it is usually 
termed, will begin in 1931 and will 
continue a thousand years. This will 
be a season of building and perfecting 
a world democracy. In this period 
the world will grow brighter and 
brighter in health, happiness and 
prosperity. One man will be seen 
starting in the right way. Soon there 
will be two, then three, then four until 
at the end of a thousand years all hu- 
manity will be journeying together in 
peace, health and happiness. 

Prov. U: i<5.— "The path of the 
just is as the shining light, that shin- 
eth more and more unto the perfect 
day." 

Many people have seemed to think 
that the Millennium would be a time 
of idleness and ease — a thousand 
years of sitting around in a Morris 
chair, as some one has expressed it, 
in the midst of plenty, with dinner on 
a golden platter and with nothing to 
do but to eat, drink and be merry. 
But this is of course only a lazy man's 
dream, the idle silly product of a 
dream. 

It seems that God tried that experi- 
ment with Adam and Eve in the Gar- 



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den of Eden and it proved to be the 
wrong thing to do (Gen. 3: 19.) 

But you may be sure that in the 
Millennium there will be no royal 
families dressed in gold lace. After 
1931 you will see these potentates 
putting on their overalls and the" 
wives will don their kitchen aprons 
for the spirit of justice and equality 
is going to run so high that there will 
be a revolution in social ideas. To 
be a slaving servant in the person of a 
wife to some idle good-for-nothing 
drone will no longer satisfy any 
young woman. And every lady will 
be proud to do her own housework. 
The law will hold its lash over the 
idle and lazy and they and their chil- 
dren will get to work. 

When the world with both hands 
on the hand line are pulling together 
with a long pull and a pull all together 
the hours of labor will be shortened 
and wages will be put on an equal 
basis. 

I propose now to show the world 
the exact year when the prophesied 
Christ, the coming Saviour, will ap- 
pear. I shall use a key to unlock the 
secret. 

When Christ began to preach the 
word of God and to proclaim himself 
the servant of God and the Saviour of 
the world, the date was just thirty 
years {Luke 3: 23) after the Star of 
Bethlehem made its appearance. 

Heh. 13: 5.— "Christ the same yes- 
terday, and today and forever." If 
this be true the Servant of God and 
the Saviour of the world will come 
and proclaim itself Feb. 24, 1931, for 
the Star of Bethlehem made its ap- 
pearance Feb. 24, 1900 and it was so 
bright that it could be seen in the 



day time as God said it would be 
{II Peter 1: 19.) 

The Boston morning papers of Feb. 
24, 1900, came out in big headlines 
saying: "Netv star so bright as to be 
seen in full sunlight. Astronomers 
marvel at the visitor which is so bril- 
liant. Probably the Star of Bethle- 
hem." 

Prof. E. A. Fuerties, professor of 
astronomy at Cornell, believes it the 
star that guided the wise men and 
this is what he said in his report: 
"Ithaca, N. Y., Feb. 24, 1900. This 
new discovery recalls the famous Tau 
or the Star of Bethlehem, which 
guided the wise men to the place of 
the birth of the Saviour, except that 
it is even more brilliant than the 
Biblical star. This new star is prob- 
ably that of Bethlehem." 

The word of God, our Bible, fore- 
told that when the Star of Bethlehem 
came again it would be even more 
brilliant, so much so that it could be 
seen in full daylight. 

Rev. 1: 18.— "Behold I have the 
keys of hell and death." 

I am going to show you one of 
these keys which will verify the fact 
that the Star of Bethlehem arrived 
exactly on time and that the valley of 
the shadow of death and hell, referred 
to in the Twenty-third Psalm and 
the fourth verse which must be ex- 
perienced by humanity will not end 
until 1931. 

KEY. 

Matt. 20: 16.— "So the last shall 
be first and the first last." 

The last generation will be the 
same number of years as the first 
generation. The first generation of 
time was Adam's generation and it 
was 1930. 



THREE STAGES. 



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Genesis 5: 1. — "This is the book of 
the generations of Adam. In the 
day that God created man." 

The day Adam was created was a 
thousand years. We of today call 
ten hundred a thousand but the an- 
cient Jews called a thousand years, 
day. 

// Peter 3: S. — "Be not ignorant 
of this one thing, that one day is with 
the Lord as a thousand years." And 
Adam lived 930 years. So Adam's 
generation was 1930 years. Christ's 
generation must reach the year 1931 
before the last generation will come 
to its end and the new age or in other 
words the Millennium, the Second 
Coming, when the Saviour can begin 
the setting up of a new kingdom of 
a World Democracy. 

Mark well the fact that the Second 
Coming cannot take place till 19;;i 
for this generation of times does not 
expire until 1930 years have pas icd 
and that brings it over into 1931. 

Both the famous authorities on 
Bible prophecy and the prophetical 
times and seasons whom I have men- 
tioned, Rev. George Shorey of Ber- 
wick, Maine, and Rev. Butler Jack of 
Saint Paul, Minn., have discovered 
more keys that unlock the secret of 
Christ's Second Coming as fixed for 
1931. But the two confirmatory 
proofs of this fact which they men- 
tion I leave unstated because their 
books may be obtained by any one ; 
and the "Laborer is worthy of his 
hire." Did not God say that there 
would be three witnesses to establish 
the real time of the Second Coming? 

Matt. 18: i 5.— "That in the mouth 
of * * * three witnesses every word 
may be established." 



THREE STAGES. 



CHAPTER XVL 



St. Matt. 18: :26.— "Have patience." 

United States is going to win this 
world war, not by force of arms, not 
by tact or diplomacy, but by circum- 
stances which will not be in her 
power to prevent and over which she 
will have no control. 

The vision of a world democracy by 
our honest, faithful and most beloved 
servant, President Wilson, is going 
to be born from this world war. 

This present war with Germany 
and her allies is but the premonitory 
stage or first warning that the long- 
promised world democracy has be- 
gun its birth {Daniel 7: 27) and 
above all things don't get excited and 
lose your head, as the street saying 
goes, for good workmen are slow and 
the mills of the Gods grind slowly, 
but sure. 

If the people of the United States 
don't look out, they will be like many 
a young doctor attending their first 
child birth; they are more anxious 
to use force than to patiently wait 
for the God of Nature to take its 
natural course. 

Romans 8: 25. — "But if we hope 
for that we see not, then do we with 
patience wait for it." 

The human mind of mankind has 
not mental vision enough, as a rule, 
to look into the future. There are 
very rare cases of a genius being 
born with mental power strong 
enough to look into the future and 
tell the world what is hidden behind 
its dark curtain. 

/ Co7\ 12: k, 10. — "Now there are 



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diversities of gifts to one is given the 
gift of prophecy." 

But the Bible warns the world not 
to take any stock in what any man 
prophesies will take place during his 
allotted time of life, for no prophecy 
uttered by a true prophet will be ful- 
filled while that prophet lives and 
should not be depended on. 

Hebreivs 9:17. — "A testament is of 
force after men are dead : otherwise 
it is of no strength at all while the 
testator liveth." 

It is true that Christ fulfilled many 
of the prophecies that he uttered 
while he lived but they were pro- 
phecies not of his own but of other 
prophets that had gone before him, 
Christ said "I reap where I sowed 
not." (Matt. 25: 26.) 

St. Matt 7: i 5.— "Beware of false 
prophets." 

Beware of anyone that tells the 
United States government what it 
should do and not do, even though 
their judgment seems common sense, 
logical and reasonable. The people 
of this great and powerful United 
States have not and never will leave 
the fate of their future welfare in the 
hands and judgment of any one of its 
servants. The servants (Congress) 
have voted to give such power to their 
head servant (President) ; but in the 
coming and very critical times of this 
world war, when the fate of our free 
government, free schools, free 
churches, free homes and free peo- 
ple, hangs on the decision of the hour 
the people will not consent to it; they 
will rebel against that power given 
by Congress to the president and the 
vast majority of the people will point 
to the oath of office that the president 
has taken, with his right hand on the 



Holy Bible, saying, "I will faithfully 
perform the duties and the trust that 
the people of the United States have 
placed upon me according to the 
teachings of God's Holy Word." 

When the very critical and painful 
stages of this world war come the 
President's judgment and his decis- 
ions have to be backed up and verified 
by God's holy prophecy of the Bible, 
or the people will never give their 
consent and will lose their confidence 
in their President, as a God-fearing 
and trusty pilot of this great gov- 
ernment. 

We of the United States know that 
so far in the world's history God's 
word has not failed and his plan of 
the ages has come true and been ful- 
filled in every little detail up to the 
present time and God's plan of this 
world democracy will have its birth 
in three stages as travail upon a 
woman with child. 

/ r/ie.s. 5; 5.— "For when they shall 
say peace and safety: then sudden 
destruction cometh upon them, as 
travail upon a woman with child ; and 
they shall not escape." 

You remember that just before this 
world war broke upon us so suddenly 
all nations held a peace conference at 
the Hague in Holland and the ruling 
nations of the world signed peace 
treaties and the morning newspapers 
come out in big headlines PEACE 
and SAFETY; then suddenly comes 
this world war of fearful destruction 
as the World's Crisis of Feb. 21, 1917, 
says : "In many respects the struggle 
has been unique in the world's his- 
tory. First, in the suddenness with 
which it burst upon Europe and the 
world. This storm came like a flash 
of lightning out of a clear sky." 



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Then it said that this world war of 
sudden destruction would come like — 
"as travail upon a woman with 
child." 

That my reader may get a better 
understanding of this prophecy I will 
quote from Dr. W. J. Tndtt's new 
book on Eugenics, page 186 : "There 
are three stages of labor pains. A 
natural labor is usually divided into 
three stages, the premonitory or first 
stage. The second stage is known 
by the grinding nature of the pains 
and the third stage is indicated, in 
which nature is making her best 
efforts to expel the child." 

Showing the reader positive and 
marvelous proof that this world war 
will come in three stages. 

This war with Germany and her 
allies is only the premonitory stage 
which means a previous warning or 
notice that God is going to destroy all 
those monarchy kingdoms and em- 
pires of the old country {Jcr. UG: 28) ; 
and when this premonitory stage 
comes to its end and peace is declared, 
United States should leave those 
Asiatic monarchy kingdoms as quick 
as possible and get back into her own 
door yard, mind her own business and 
let other nations and kingdoms do 
the same. 

When God told Lot to leave Sodom 
and Gomorrah because he was going 
to destroy the cities Lot took his wife 
and family and left the country and 
was saved ; but when Lot warned the 
people that they were going to be 
destroyed even members of his own 
family began to mock him and in- 
sinuate that he was crazy {Gen. 
19: H.) 

God is going to put an end to all 
monarchy governments for this rea- 



son ; ever since the dawn of history 
kings have had no more heart and no 
higher aim in life than to draft the 
poor into war after war, in like man- 
ner as men who have no heart put 
two game birds into a pit and delight 
to see them fight and kill each other. 
After this world war comes to its 
final finish the poor hard-working sons 
of toil arc going to have a chance to 
draft these royal family murderers to 
the plow, the anvil and the spindle, 
and the loom and a just and gigantic 
step in advancing civilization will be 
taken. 

The second stage of this world war 
will be known as the long seven years 
of the most terrific, horrible grinding 
pains of the war (Ezek. 39: 9), a 
letting loose of the Asiatic Pagan 
worshipers of peace, love and friend- 
ship against the Asiatic worshipers 
of war, murder, thieving and enmity 
of other nations, the Pagan worship- 
ers of the dragon, China, and of the 
serpent, Japan, are going to sit in 
judgment {Rev. 20: J^) over all 
Europe, Asia and Africa and all the 
islands of these oceans and seas. 

The last stage of this world war 
will be indicated by a terrible pesti- 
lence raging like flames of fire 
through all the monarchy kingdoms 
of the old world till those monarchy 
governments become like a boiling sea 
of the dead and dying, the God of na- 
ture making his best effort to expel 
the child government of a world de- 
mocracy. 

This coming new world democracy 
will be born independent of any likes 
or dislikes of the United States; yet 
its first president will be a citizen of 
the United States and the prophecy 
also shows that the capital of that 



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world democracy will be built in the 
city of Jerusalem in Palestine. 

Isaiah 28: i(?.— "Saith the Lord 
God, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foun- 
dation." 

Isaiah 59: 20. — "And the Redeemer 
shall come to Zion," 

Isaiah 2: 3. — "For out of Zion 
shall go forth the law." 

Micah U: 7. — "And the Lord shall 
reign over them in Mount Zion." 

Daniel 7: H. — "And there was 
given him dominion, and glory, and 
a kingdom, that all people, nations 
and languages should serve him : his 
dominion is an everlasting dominion, 
which shall not pass away, and his 
kingdom that which shall not be de- 
stroyed." 

Daniel 7 : 27. — "And all dominions 
shall serve and obey him." 

Isaiah 2: 2-.lf. — "And it shall come 
to pass in the last days * * * the 
Lord's house shall be established in 
the top of the mountain and all na- 
tions shall flow into it * * * and he 
will teach us of his ways, and we will 
walk in his paths for out of Zion 
shall go forth the law, and the word 
of the Lord from Jerusalem. And he 
shall judge among the nations, and 
shall rebuke many people; and they 
shall beat their swords into pruning 
hooks: nation shall not lift up sword 
against nation, neither shall they 
learn war any more." 

Psalms Jf6: 9. — "He maketh wars 
to cease unto the ends of the earth." 

And thanks be to Alimghty God 
that this world war is to be the last 
war and our United States will never 
see war any more or take part in any 
war or wars in the future after this 
war with Germany. 

United States will not take any part 



in the coming seven-year war with 
Japan and her allies. 

I have taken the reader clear 
round Robin Hood's barn, as the 
street saying goes, to give him a hur- 
ried and very brief view into many of 
these deep, dark, strange and most 
marvelous prophecies of the future 
and the past and I will challenge the 
world to prove that I have interpreted 
the prophecies in an unjust, unfair 
and wrong light ; yet I am fully aware 
that to err is human and no one can 
say that they are divine and infal- 
lible. 

In closing this book on prophecy 
my prayer is and ever will be for our 
nation to be patient. All these pro- 
phecies must come to pass and be 
fulfilled {Matt. 5: 18.) Don't get ex- 
cited ; don't lose your head, don't 
think for a moment that any one's 
mere drop of human intelligence can 
change the great ocean of God's di- 
vine wisdom and his divine prophecy 
and plans of a world democracy. Be 
patient and the glorious fruit will 
ripen in due season. 

James 5: 7. — "Behold, the hus- 
bandman waiteth for the precious 
fruit of the earth, and hath long pa- 
tience for it." 

This book will be in the printer's 
hands today, July 26, 1918. What I 
have said about the Pope of Rome in- 
terceding and Japan asking United 
States to stop fighting and consider 
terms of peace, is not in sight yet, 
but it shortly will be. 



SILVER LINING. 



CHAPTER XVII. 



It is said that every dark cloud has 



SILVER LINING. 



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its silver lining and our Bible pro- 
phecies reveal that this darkest cloud 
of war that has ever hung over the 
world has the most beautiful, most 
valuable silver lining that has ever 
appeared in the sky of humanity. 

God promised that following the 
war with Germany or in other words 
between the first and second acts of 
this terrible world war drama the 
books of the Bible would be opened or 
in other words interpreted. 

Daniel 7: 10. — "The judgment was 
set and the books were opened." 

No one need to read the whole Bible 
to get the program of this world war 
for this seventh chapter of Daniel 
gives a full outline of it from the 
time the British Lion entered the 
war till the beginning of the great 
world democracy. 

This program shows in the ninth 
verse of this seventh chapter that the 
monarchy thrones of the British Lion, 
Russian Bear and German Leopard 
will be cast down but not destroyed, 
that they will be in a bankrupt, crip- 
pled condition. They will then enter 
into a conspiracy to divide Russia 
and steal a part for each, to offset 
the cost of this war. But United 
States will take no part in the theft 
of Russia and will come home with 
clean hands and a pure heart. God's 
promised judgment upon them will 
then set, in other words it will come 
upon them. God will let loose the 
dragon nations, China and Japan, for 
a little season {Rev. 20: 2, 3) and 
judgment is going to be given into 
the hands and hearts of China and 
Japan to do with England, Russia and 
Germany as they see fit and the pro- 
phecy of Daniel tells what that judg- 
ment will be. Japan and China will 



take away England, Russia and Ger- 
many's dominion. 

Daniel 7: 12. — "As concerning the 
rest of the beasts they had their do- 
minion taken away." 

You might ask, what is United 
States to profit, in coming home 
empty handed. May I ask you what 
greater honor or fame can come to 
any nation than to leave bad com- 
pany and come home and prepare Un- 
ited States for a gigantic self-defense. 
God has many times pointed out in 
the Bible that he has never forsaken 
the righteous. 

Psalms 37: 25. — "I have been 
young, and now am old; yet have I 
not seen the righteous forsaken, nor 
his seed begging bread." 

God has a good judgment for the 
good nations and a punishment for 
bad nations which they cannot es- 
cape. They must reap that which 
they have sown. No one has ques- 
tioned this just law of nature. 

Job 4: 7, 8. — "Remember, I pray 
thee, whoever perished, being inno- 
cent? or where were the righteous cut 
off? Even as I have seen, they that 
plow iniquity, and sow wickedness, 
reap the same." 

United States is making a tre- 
mendous sacrifice in trying to make 
the world a decent place to live in 
and she is going to achieve it before 
the war comes to its end. 

She is coming home from France 
saying — "We entered this war for no 
indemnity or any new lands." The 
voice of the people of United States 
is for: "peace on earth, and good 
will to man." 

God is going to say to our boys of 
Old Glory and their Red Cross sisters 
when they return from France — some 



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of them will be blind, others with legs 
and arms gone, others broken in 
health, but the spirit of God is in the 
hearts of the American people who 
will cry out — "Welcome — our good 
and faithful servants, enter thou into 
the joy prepared for those who have 
tried to subdue the earth (Gen. 1: 28) 
as a commandment from God. 

Posterity will say these are the 
saints of the Most High; they tried 
to subdue the earth from the Kaiser, 
which was the will of God. A crown 
of life of everlasting remembrance is 
yours. 

Rev. 2: 10. — "And I will give thee 
a crown of life." 

Isaiah 36: 5. — "I will give them an 
everlasting name, that shall not be 
cut off." 

Every town and city will have a 
great monument upon which will be 
engraved the names of our soldier 
boys and their Red Cross sisters, 
which time will not remove. Every 
town and city will have a book called 
the Lamb's book of Life and in that 
book will be engraved the names of 
our brave soldier boys and their Red 
Cross sisters which may be handed 
down to posterity. 

Rev. 21 : 27. — "But they which are 
written in the Lamb's Book of Life." 

And as the great hearted Lincoln 
said over the graves of our fathers 
at Gettysburg: "We are highly re- 
solved that these dead shall not have 
died in vain; that this nation, under 
God, shall have a new birth of free- 
dom and shall not perish from the 
earth." 

God is going to give our brave 
boys and their Red Cross sisters the 
greatest prize and honor that has 
ever been given to any nation or king- 



dom, a world dominion that shall 
never pass away and never be de- 
stroyed, {Daniel 7: 27) and it will be 
called the UNITED NATIONS of the 
World. 

And the half I have not yet told 
you, as it was in the days of Sol- 
omon. 

/ Kings 10: 7.— "Behold, the half 
was not told me: thy wisdom and 
prosperity exceedeth the fame which 
I heard." 

Today, as it was in the days of 
Solomon, there are things that we. 
would much rather have than fame 
and this is that our children and 
children's children throughout all 
coming ages shall inherit peace, 
health, happiness, wisdom and pros- 
perity in abundance. 

God promised this sorrowful, pain- 
ful, ignorant, poor generation that 
between the first and second act of 
this awful and terrible world war 
the books of the Bible would be inter- 
preted. 

Daniel 7: 10. — "Judgment was set, 
and the books were opened." 

The Bible as you well know, con- 
tains history yet to be fulfilled. Like- 
wise does the Bible contain wisdom 
and knowledge that modern science 
has not yet discovered, knowledge 
that will rock human misery to sleep. 
So far in the world's history we have 
been fighting the effect of a cause and 
perfectly ignorant of that first cause 
which is the cause of all the world's 
sorrow, pain, wars and hardships and 
the cause of a great waste of our 
time, labor and money. 

The sooner we are fully sensible 
and deeply know that we are chil- 
dren of nature, subject to nature, 
punished by nature whenever we 



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break or transgress its laws the bet- 
ter. We have got to suffer for it 
either physically or mentally. 

Even our good clergy are beginning 
to realize this fact. Says Rev, H. A. 
Mitchell in The World's Crisis, Aug. 
8, 1917: "Nature's laws are Gcd's 
laws, therefore he who breaks the 
laws of nature, breaks the laws of 
God." 

Even our good medical authorities 
are beginning to see this valuable 
truth for says Dr. J. H. Kellogg of 
Battle Creek Sanitarium fame: "If 
you want to get the most out of life, 
you must live in accordance with Na- 
ture's laws." 

The world renowned Luther Bur- 
hank, who has advanced human pro- 
gress and civilization more than any 
other man of this generation except 
Thomas A. Edison, who is probably 
his equal, gathered all his new dis- 
coveries by watching nature and its 
natural laws of operation, which is 
the great, unchangeable, infinite 
Father of us all. Said this great in- 
tellectual leader of human progress : 
"It is emphatically true that the 
things around us in nature are our 
chief teachers." 

The Bible voiced this truth nearly 
two thousand years ago yet we of to- 
day are just beginning to believe it. 

/ Cor. 11: H. — "Doth not even na- 
ture itself teach you?" 

Thomas A. Edison was asked if he 
did not get weary of so much experi- 
menting. "No," said the great gen- 
ius — "I never get tired of talking 
with God." 

We have a natural body and a 
spiritual body and both are governed 
by unchangeable unavoidable laws of 
nature. 



All nations of the world, through- 
out all coming generations will wor- 
ship but one God in spirit and in 
truth. Not by crying, Lord, Lord, 
help us, but by following the teach- 
ings of nature and obeying its natural 
laws of operation. 

Rev. 21: 1, 22.—" And I, John, saw 
the holy city new Jerusalem * * * 
and I saw no temple there." 

Back in the Garden of Eden Adam 
and Eve were told of a certain fixed 
law of nature {Gen. 2: 17) that meant 
sorrow, {Gen. 3: 16) loss of love and 
hardship all the days of their hfe, 
if they broke it (Gen. 3: 17) and they 
broke it and knew not how to mend it 
and like the fable of the fox— "When 
he saw the grapes beyond his power 
went and said the grapes were sour." 

Adam and Eve were told that if 
they did not break the law that they 
would have access to a river of life 
where there is bdellium, (Gen. 2: 12) 
or in other words medical virtues, 
that they would find nature its own 
physician. And for six thousand 
years mankind have tried to over- 
come that law of nature that a sor- 
rowful, suffering world is still break- 
ing as Adam and Eve did. 

Genesis 3: 6. — "And the woman 
took of the fruit and did eat." 

Romans 1: 26. — "Woman did 
change the natural use into that 
which is against nature." 

Between the first and second act of 
this terrible world war the following 
hidden medical knowledge that God 
promised to give to the world will be 
interpreted by the writer. 

Rev., chap. 22. — "And he showed 
me a pure river of water of life * * * 
and there was the tree of life and 
the leaves of the tree were for the 



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healing of the nations and there shall 
be no more curse." 

Ezek. U7: 12. — "And by the river 
shall grow all trees and the leaf there- 
of for medicine." 

In the second act of this great 
world war all the nations of the old 
world will be going the broad way to 
destruction by wars, famines and 
pestilences but United States will 
choose the way of peace, health, hap- 



piness and great prosperity and soon 
after this terrible world war comes 
to its end in 1931, the whole world 
will be filled with peace, health, hap- 
piness and great prosperity. 

Eccles. 9: 18. — "Wisdom is better 
than weapons of war." 

Isaiah 33: 2U. — "And the inhabi- 
tant shall not say, I am sick ; the peo- 
ple that dwell therein shall be for- 
given their iniquity." 



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